Paloma Faith reveals she had a ‘nervous breakdown’ after split from husband Leyman Lahcine left her ‘broken’: ‘I was full of guilt and shame’
Paloma Faith has revealed she suffered a ‘nervous breakdown’ following her split from husband Leyman Lahcine.
The 42-year-old singer admitted she finds it difficult to look back on that period of her life because she was “so broken” and “full of guilt and shame” over the end of their relationship.
Paloma married 36-year-old Leyman in 2017, before confirming they split in 2022 after nine years together.
The New York hitmaker and the French artist – with whom she has two daughters aged seven and two – split in 2022.
Speaking about her relationship with her ex-partner now, Paloma said The sun: ‘I was honestly so broken, I think I had a nervous breakdown.
Paloma Faith has revealed she suffered a ‘nervous breakdown’ following her split from husband Leyman Lahcine
The singer married French artist Leyman in 2017 before confirming they would split in 2022 after nine years together (the pair are pictured in 2018)
“I was so broken that my brain didn’t even work in that way of being aware. It’s hard for me to remember much of it because I was so sad and full of guilt and shame.’
Despite her heartbreak, the Paloma star was determined to maintain an amicable relationship with her ex for the sake of their children.
She said, ‘You have to see your ex all the time. You can’t just say, ‘This is too painful.’
“We’re conflict-averse, so we both tried to be quick friends and, like most things in life, if you fake it long enough, it becomes true.”
Paloma added that she isn’t ready to date again because she doesn’t feel “emotionally available” to a potential partner.
But if she decides to look for love again, the ‘Only Love Can Hurt Like This’ singer might try an app like Tinder after previously feeling dissatisfied with exclusive, invite-only matchmaking app Raya .
Paloma will also appear 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.
The singer admitted that she finds it difficult to look back on that period in her life because she was ‘so broken’ (Paloma and Leyman in 2015)
Paloma will also appear 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
“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 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 revealed how her ex-partner feels about the break-up that inspired her new album: “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.”
Paloma also 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 star, who shares two children with Leyman, also described suffering 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 also 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.