Sia Says She Was 'Severely Depressed' Following Her Divorce: 'I Was in Bed for 3 Years'

"I got divorced and that really threw me for a loop," the Grammy winner said, explaining why upcoming release 'Reasonable Woman' is her first album since 2016

Sia found inspiration from her darkest moments to create new music.

The Australian singer, 47, revealed in a recent interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 that she went through a period of depression following her divorce from Erik Anders Lang after two years of marriage.

"Well, actually, the truth is that I had just been every now and again writing a song here or there for the last six, seven years," said the songwriter while discussing her forthcoming album Reasonable Woman.

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"I got divorced and that really threw me for a loop. That was such a dark time that I was in bed for three years, really, really severely depressed. And so I couldn't really do anything for that period of time," she added.

Reasonable Woman will mark the Grammy winner's first album release since 2016's This Is Acting. While the album is expected to be released in spring 2024, the singer dropped a single from the album titled "Gimme Love" on Wednesday.

Speaking about how she was able to get herself to record the new music, she said she started by recording "just little bits and pieces here and there."

"And then, finally, it just turned out we had enough songs to make an album, enough good ones," she explained. "So I just rely on my management to tell me when we've got enough good ones because I don't really... I can tell when I think one is particularly good, I think I can tell, but they tell me when we've got 11 or 12 or 13 enough good ones, real good ones."

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Although the performer has been relatively private about her love life following her divorce, she wed boyfriend Dan Bernad, in an intimate ceremony in Portofino, Italy, in May.

As far as how she's been able to stay confident while performing, she explained that wearing her trademark blonde wig has helped her create a "little bubble" for herself.

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"When I got sober is when I put the wig on my face and that's when I had in-ears and wig and I'm just like, 'It's like I'm in a little bubble with myself.' But now that I know that that's what's going on, I think maybe one day I'll do a show with my face out again and have little fun talking to the audience and being heckled and getting present again because those shows were really fun back in the day before I had the wig on," she said. "They were really, really fun."

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