Paloma Faithjoked she is feeling ’emaciated’ after her big break up last year (Picure: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for BFI)
Paloma Faith has opened up about splitting from her partner of almost a decade, Leyman Lahcine.
Also father to her two daughters, Leyman, 36, and the Only Love Can Hurt Like This hitmaker, 42, semi-officially announced they had gone their separate ways in August when Paloma declared herself a ‘single mum’.
But this time last year, the singer hinted at the split when she described 2022 as being ‘s**t’ and declared herself a ‘broken woman’.
The pair married in 2017, after going out for four years. In 2015, Leyman told Glass magazine that he loved living in London because it was where he met ‘the love of my life’.
But out of ‘trauma’ comes art, as Paloma and Zoe Ball discussed on Radio 2 this morning. The star has just released her hit How You Leave a Man, and confessed she is sharing her ‘most personal’ music to date.
‘I feel emaciated and it’s because I’ve had around 700 break ups in 12 months,’ the star joked, laughing.
The star looked incredible in this fabulous dress as she made an appearance on BBC Radio 2 today (Picture: Neil Mockford/GC Images)
Paloma and her ex-husband Leyman Lahcine were together for almost 10 years (Picture: David M. Benett/Dave Benett/WireImage)
Paloma went on to quip: ‘It’s due to my new single. It’s all for the art, it’s like “what does a breakup feel like again?”‘
The mother-of-two explained: ‘When there’s kids involved you can’t just go out there and talk in interviews like you would in the past.
‘I used to go out there and be like “yeah, this guy is a real awful man” you can’t do that because there’s children and you have to build a relationship and we have to work something out.
‘Our family is still our family but it’s changed shape and I still feel kind of protective of it.’
Describing how difficult this turbulent time has been and how it’s reflected in her new music, Paloma continued: ‘That title came about because it’s all about that feeling when you get to a really low point and you’re like “what am I going to do with this?”
‘It was the first time in my life that I’ve ever felt like I might need some help.
‘I’m not very good at asking for help and I’m a bit of a brave face person,’ she said.
‘I got myself to a low point where I thought “I’m a bit worried, it doesn’t feel like I can get out of it”.
‘As I was writing this music and thought I’ve got to wear it like a badge of honourso it’s glorifying a tragic moment – which is essentially what you do as an artist when you put your work out there, you make your tragedy into commodity, it’s quite sort of sick and twisted.’
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