Cheryl Cole said she still felt butterflies over husband Ashley. The Girls Aloud singer was asked about her footballer husband's alleged infidelity, and she told Elle magazine: ''I know from a perspective how it looks but it's not like that. And I'm not a stupid girl . I'm not one of those girls who can't see things for what they are. I've been out with idiots in the past. Ashley's such a nice guy. I still get the butterflies.'' The Geordie star said marriages had to be worked at and were not 'rose-petalled paths that you skip down'. Adding: ''Love is real and the feelings of love are real. But the thought that everything is going to be rosy and there's never going to obstacles that come in your way, that there is never going to be any testing in life, I'd hate that. I want to experience life. I want to experience the bad to know what the good is." Cheryl shot to fame when she won her place in Girls Aloud on ITV's Popstars: the Rivals in 2002. The full interview appears in the November issue of Elle magazine, on sale from Wednesday.