Singer Paloma Faith has said her split from ex and father of her two daughters Leyman Lahcine was “the worst thing that has happened to me.”
The London star, 42, spoke on this week’s Jonathan Ross Show about her break-up - which features heavily in her upcoming album The Glorification of Sadness.
Faith married French artist Leyman, 36, in 2017. She confirmed they'd split in 2022 after nine years together. They have two daughters - aged two and seven.
Speaking about the break up and her album, Faith said: “They're all personal but it's just that the worst thing that happened to me, happened and I wrote an album about it.
“It chronicles the stages of grief I went through breaking up with my partner of ten years and father to my two children.”
Speaking about their relationship now, Faith continued: “We're really good. We're doing really well and I think it's as well as can be.
“I'm not pretending I'm like Gwyeth Paltrow, I'm not consciously uncoupling. At times, it's awful but we're navigating and I do think we're doing a lot better than some couples that are married.
“My observation is that the reason why our relationship is so good now is that I expect nothing from him and vice-versa.”
“He now knows we're together forever - it means the absolute eternal thing is that our love came together and made these kids, it is infinite.
“We are in a different situation. I've dedicated the album to him and my children to say this is infinite love.”
The singer said the artist was on board for her using her private life in her album. “He knows what he signed up for,” she said.
It comes after Faith detailed how she had a miscarriage on the set of 2019 drama Pennyworth, in which she plays sociopath Bet Sykes.
Speaking on the How To Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast this week, Faith said she carried on filming as otherwise: “I would just be going home without work and without a viable pregnancy.”
Faith said: “[The miscarriage] started at work and it was a fight scene on Pennyworth. I just thought to myself, It’s gone so I might as well carry on with 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 if I told them they would escort me home. I didn’t want to. I would just be going home without work and without a viable pregnancy.”
Faith also spoke about undergoing IVF treatment and suffering an ectopic pregnancy that damaged a fallopian tube, impacting her fertility.
She went on: “I then had an ectopic pregnancy with the first one then my fertility starts going because I’ve had one tube damaged. The second time worked, so I was lucky because I actually ended up with 2 viable pregnancies quite quickly.”
