Jess Glynne missed a meeting with Jay-Z to have her new TV fitted (Picture: Getty)
Jess Glynne has revealed she skipped a meeting with Jay-Z… to have a new TV fitted.
The 33-year-old singer has recently signed to the rapper’s management company Roc Nation, but couldn’t make it to their first meeting as she was waiting in to have her television installed.
Discussing the moment she had to call the 53-year-old to cancel on him, the Hold My Hand singer said, ‘I was meant to meet him, but I was getting my TV fitted on the day.
‘I was in LA, and I was in a brand new apartment. I had loads of workmen delivering stuff and putting things in, and I was meant to be in the office.
Jess signed to Jay-Z’s company Roc Nation last year (Picture: Mattpapz/BACKGRID)
‘I was like, “Ah yeah, I can’t make it.” Partially nerves but partially I had people fitting my TV.’
However, she added to The Sun that Beyoncé’s husband ‘found it funny.’
She said, ‘He laughed, he respected the fact I had to get my s*** together, you know. I was doing what real people do.’
Jess has recently returned to the music industry with the release of her single Silly Me, her first since a cover of Donny Hathaway’s This Christmas for Amazon Music in 2020.
Jess insists Jay-Z ‘laughed’ when she bailed on their meeting (Picture: Steve Granitz/WireImage)
She has since opened up on the ‘really dark space’ she was in before parting ways with her former record label Atlantic Records.
Jess continued, ‘It really was a very nerve-wracking time of my life. It was very brave and bold and I think you never know what the outcome is going to be when you make such big decisions.
‘But for me, I was at a point where a lot had happened in my life, and life is short.
‘It’s important to put happiness, mental health and greatness in front of you, rather than suppress it.’
Jess has been vocal about the ‘dark times’ she felt over the last couple of years, writing on Instagram back in April, ‘In 2021 I lost a friend in a really tragic way and it has changed the way I see and feel life.
Jess has recently returned to music after going through ‘dark times’ (Picture: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)
‘I was deeply unhappy and I was so lost in my career and I felt trapped by people who didn’t believe in me during such a sensitive time.’
She added: ‘I made a decision to walk away from all that negativity and start again because I saw how short life is and how important it is to look after you.
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‘This was probably one of the toughest, scariest things I have ever done and at the time I had no idea how it would work out but I had to put my happiness and my mental health first no matter what.
‘These past years have been the most trialling on me emotionally and physically but I feel as though they have made me the best version of myself.’
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