Paloma Faith reveals she had suicidal thoughts after jet lag left her ‘mentally unstable’
SINGER Paloma Faith has revealed she had suicidal thoughts after jet lag left her feeling “mentally unstable”. She said that in her anguish she tried to “unbolt the window” of her hotel room. The horror incident hit Paloma after she had flown 10,500 miles to Sydney for her shows in 2009. She said: “I’ve had […]
SINGER Paloma Faith has revealed she had suicidal thoughts after jet lag left her feeling “mentally unstable”.
She said that in her anguish she tried to “unbolt the window” of her hotel room.
The horror incident hit Paloma after she had flown 10,500 miles to Sydney for her shows in 2009.
She said: “I’ve had really bad experiences coming to Australia.
“The first time I ever experienced jet lag, I got a bit disoriented and mentally unstable and had to cancel the tour.
“I contemplated suicide.”
Paloma returned Down Under in 2015 but was hospitalised with exhaustion, tweeting: “I don’t think all the flying is very good for the body.”
She opens up about her struggles in a BBC Two documentary Paloma Faith: As I Am.
The mum of two, whose partner of eight years is artist Leyman Lahcine, tells how she had two failed IVF transfers and a miscarriage before having a second child last month.
She also reveals her strained relationship with father Ramon, who she cut contact with more than a decade ago.
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Paloma said: “What I remember as a kid was my father never thinking anything I did was good enough.
“Maybe that’s why I’ve fallen into this job — to get the validation of the public I craved from him.”
- PALOMA Faith: As I Am, BBC Two and iPlayer, Saturday March 27, 9pm.
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EVERY 90 minutes in the UK a life is lost to suicide.
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It’s the biggest killer of people under the age of 35, more deadly than cancer and car crashes.
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