PALOMA FAITH has revealed that she ended her marriage due to claims that her husband was cheating on her.
The Brit Award winner split from artist Leyman Lahcine, the father of her two children, after a decade together.
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Paloma Faith ended her marriage due to allegations that her husband cheated on her Credit: Yan Wasiuchnik
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Brit Award winner splits from artist Leyman Lahcine after ten years togetherCredit: Rex Features
Speaking about her divorce for the first time, she mused: “I’m never going to be perfect so if that’s what you want, go find someone else to cheat on. Be boring.
“It’s never boring with me. Maybe uncomfortable, maybe irritating, maybe stressful. But it’s not boring.”
She dug up last year’s heartbreak for her sixth studio album, The Glorification Of Sadness, and today drops lead single How You Leave A Man, which includes a scathing takedown of her ex.
Paloma sings: “They will know when you change the lock and number, sleep with unknown people.”
But, laughing about the song, she added: “It’s funny, empowering, but also a bit funny. I like to laugh at myself all the time.”
But she refused to hold back in documenting the devastating reality of her emotions.
When asked if her ex-husband heard it, she said: “Some of that. I had to ask permission.”
Speaking as she played Bizarre tracks from the album, which will be released on February 16, she said: “In the last few years I have been closer to failure, despair, sadness and loss than I have ever been in my life. I had a choice.
“I could disappear into my melancholy or wear it as a badge of honor.
“The album is about taking responsibility for your own happiness.
“The tracklist stretches chronologically through the course of a long-term relationship involving children, because it’s a very different experience to the breakups of youth.”
Paloma, who will be touring with the album next spring, said: “It feels like my most personal work. I am essentially selling agony as a commodity.
“It’s like, ‘The last few years have been really awful,’ and then it goes, ‘Let’s put a cherry on top of that shit.’ That’s why I called it the Glorification of Sorrow.”
But she’s determined not to portray herself as a “victim” on the album, which includes collaborations with Chase & Status, Kojey Radical and Maverick Sabre.
Paloma added: “Women often sing about themselves as victims when it comes to breaking up and it’s quite celebrated.
“But I said, ‘I have nothing to do with that, I don’t want to send that message.’
“I want to say that we are strong, we manage our own happiness and that we will be brave and sometimes make mistakes. But almost with their heads held high.”
Still, it’s clear that feelings are still extremely raw for Paloma, who started dating Leyman in 2013 and married him in 2017.
She never confirmed their wedding, but in her new song Razvod, she refers to the fact that they are a married couple.
Before starting to play the emotional track, she said: “This is very hard for me to hear. This is one of the saddest. It’s uncomfortable. I will try not to cry.”
‘Rage Stage of Grief’
When asked if singing songs would bring her back to a painful time, she added: “I’m still in it, so I’m reliving it anyway.
“We have children, so we have to see each other all the time. The scab comes off with a band-aid.”
However, she doesn’t hold back and one song has the very direct title Eat S**t And Die. She said with a laugh, “Obviously the album takes you through all the stages of grief.
“There are deep moments and various, ‘Just* everyone!’ moments. It takes us into the rage phase of grieving.”
Although she goes on the record with her very real emotions, she is reluctant to reveal further details about their relationship.
The Only Love Can Hurt Like The singer added: “It’s a different feeling having kids and knowing they’ll be reading about it in ten years.
“I have to respect that because when they grow up they might say, ‘Fuck you.'”
From what I’ve heard so far, this sounds like it could be the best album of Paloma’s career.
And if it helps her deal with her feelings, it was worth it.
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