Paloma Faith calls her divorce from ex Leyman Lahcine ‘the worst thing that happened to me’.
The 42-year-old singer stars on The Jonathan Ross Show this week and talks candidly about the therapeutic process of writing her most personal album to date.
“They’re all personal, but 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 describes the stages of grief I went through when I was with my partner and father of my two children for ten years,” she added.
Paloma married French artist Leyman, 36, in 2017 before confirming their split in 2022 after nine years together.
Paloma Faith calls her divorce from ex-partner Leyman Lahcine ‘the worst thing that happened to me’.
Paloma married French artist Leyman, 36, in 2017 before splitting in 2022 after nine years together (Paloma and Leyman in 2015)
Speaking about her relationship with her ex-partner now, Paloma revealed: ‘We are really good. We’re doing really well and I think it’s as good as it can get.”
“I don’t pretend to be like Gwyeth Paltrow, I don’t consciously disconnect. Sometimes it’s horrible, but we’re navigating it and I think we’re doing a lot better than some married couples.”
“My observation is that the reason our relationship is so good now is because I don’t expect anything from him and vice versa.”
Paloma reveals how her ex-partner feels about the break-up that inspired her new album, saying: ‘He knows what he signed up for.’
He was a little disappointed when he saw the end of my How You Leave A Man video. He did ask, “Why am I in the trunk?” It’s a metaphor, honey!’
‘He was a bit offended. But he knows now that we are together forever – it means that the fact that our love came together and made these children is absolutely eternal, it is infinite. We are in a different situation. I 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, where 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 realized she was having a miscarriage, but insisted on continuing filming for fear of losing her job, saying, “I would just go home with no job and no viable pregnancy.’
The 42-year-old singer stars on The Jonathan Ross Show this week and talks candidly about the therapeutic process of writing her most personal album to date.
Speaking about her relationship with her ex-partner now, Paloma revealed: ‘We’re doing really well and I think it’s as good as it can get. I don’t pretend to be like Gwyeth Paltrow, I don’t consciously disconnect. Sometimes it’s terrible, but we’re navigating
“They’re all personal, but 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 shared that she suffered a traumatic ectopic pregnancy after undergoing IVF treatment, where the ectopic pregnancy damaged a fallopian tube and affected her fertility.
She continued: ‘I then had an ectopic pregnancy with the first and then my fertility started to decline because one tube was damaged. The second time worked, so I was lucky because I actually had two viable pregnancies quite quickly.”
On keeping her miscarriage a secret at work, Paloma said: “(The miscarriage) started at work and it was a fight scene at Pennyworth. I thought to myself, it’s gone, so I might as well continue 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 they would escort me home if I told them. I did not want to. I would just go home with no work and no viable pregnancy.”
Paloma shed light on her heartbreaking fertility issues this week
The singer and actress, 42, appeared on the How To Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast, where she revealed she suffered a miscarriage on the set of 2019 drama Pennyworth, in which she plays sociopath Bet Sykes.