Paloma Faith has called her split from ex Leyman Lahcine ‘the worst thing that has happened to me.’
The singer, 42, stars on this week’s Jonathan Ross Show and candidly opens up on the therapeutic process of writing her most personal album yet.
‘They’re all personal but it’s just that the worst thing that happened to me, happened and I wrote an album about it,’ she explained of her upcoming sixth record The Glorification of Sadness.
‘It chronicles the stages of grief I went through breaking up with my partner of ten years and father to my two children,’ she added.
Paloma married French artist Leyman, 36, in 2017 before confirming they’d split in 2022 after nine years together.
Paloma Faith has called her split from ex partner Leyman Lahcine ‘the worst thing that has happened to me.’
Paloma married French artist Leyman, 36, in 2017 before confirming they’d split in 2022 after nine years together(Paloma and Leyman in 2015)
Speaking about her relationship with her ex-partner now, Paloma revealed, ‘We’re really good. We’re doing really well and I think it’s as well as can be.’
‘I’m not pretending I’m like Gwyeth Paltrow, I’m not consciously uncoupling. At times, it’s awful but we’re navigating and I do think we’re doing a lot better than some couples that are married.’
‘My observation is that the reason why our relationship is so good now is that I expect nothing from him and vice-versa.’
Revealing how her ex-partner feels about the break-up inspiring her new album, Paloma says, ‘He knows what he signed up for.’
He was a little bit disappointed when he saw the end of my How You Leave A Man video. He did go ‘Why am I in the trunk?’ It’s a metaphor babe!’
‘He was a bit offended. But he now knows we’re together forever – it means the absolute eternal thing is that our love came together and made these kids, it is infinite. We are in a different situation. I’ve dedicated the album to him and my children to say this is infinite love.’
The singer and actress, 42, appeared on the How To Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast this week, on which she revealed she suffered a miscarriage on the set of 2019 drama Pennyworth, in which she plays sociopath Bet Sykes.
She explained that while filming a fight scene, she realised she was miscarrying but insisted on carrying on with filming for fear of losing her job, saying: ‘I would just be going home without work and without a viable pregnancy.’
The singer, 42, stars on this week’s Jonathan Ross Show and candidly opens up on the therapeutic process of writing her most personal album yet.
Speaking about her relationship with her ex-partner now, Paloma revealed, ‘We’re doing really well and I think it’s as well as can be. I’m not pretending I’m like Gwyeth Paltrow, I’m not consciously uncoupling. At times, it’s awful but we’re navigating’
‘They’re all personal but it’s just that the worst thing that happened to me, happened and I wrote an album about it,’ she explained of her upcoming record The Glorification of Sadness
The star, who shares two children with Leyman also detailed suffering a traumatic ectopic pregnancy after undergoing IVF treatment, with the ectopic pregnancy damaging a fallopian tube and impacting her fertility.
She went on: ‘I then had an ectopic pregnancy with the first one then my fertility starts going because I’ve had one tube damaged. The second time worked, so I was lucky because I actually ended up with 2 viable pregnancies quite quickly.’
On keeping her miscarriage secret at work, Paloma said: ‘[The miscarriage] started at work and it was a fight scene on Pennyworth. I just thought to myself, It’s gone so I might as well carry on with what I was doing. I had to go to the toilet 9 times…
‘I told them I ate something bad last night because I knew if I told them they would escort me home. I didn’t want to. I would just be going home without work and without a viable pregnancy.’
Paloma has shed light this week on her heartbreaking fertility struggles
The singer and actress, 42, appeared on the How To Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast, on which she revealed she suffered a miscarriage on the set of 2019 drama Pennyworth, in which she plays sociopath Bet Sykes