In 2018, Katie Melua confided in Paris Match, addressing in particular a burn out in 2010, now well behind her. “I found myself literally paralyzed in the face of life. I couldn’t move forward, nor see the world normally, I was afraid of everything. (…) I spent six weeks in the hospital and I will remember all my life the day when I realized that I had come out of it.“
Katie Melua, who felt at the time that “no longer having a family life [devait] to play“, evokes the late Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain or Jimi Hendrix, who died at 27, to highlight the harmful effects of success and confide in them. “I also stopped drinking, taking drugs. This allowed me to preserve myself, to conserve the energy necessary for a career“, she says.
Separated from her husband, motorcycle racer James Toseland after eight years of union, she did not give the identity of the future dad.