PALOMA FAITH: How to Deal With Heartbreak When You're Not Okay | GREAT MOMENTS

Great Company with Jamie Laing

Jamie Laing revisits his conversation with British artist Paloma Faith, who opens up about navigating profound heartbreak while co-parenting and channeling her emotions into a deeply personal new

Key takeaways

• Paloma Faith reveals her new album chronologically maps the seven stages of grief, with each song representing a different emotional phase following her separation.
• She discusses experiencing stress-related alopecia, noting that her hair loss is directly triggered by unprocessed emotional tension rather than work pressure.

Main topics

• Heartbreak and co-parenting
• Music as emotional catharsis

Notable quotes

"There's nothing more human than failure over and over again."

Conclusion

Listeners gain a raw, unfiltered look at how an artist transforms personal trauma into creative

Transcript preview

Speaker 1 (0:02) Hello, everyone. I'm Jamie Lang, and this is Great Moments. Speaker 1 (0:08) Hey guys, so welcome back to Great Moments. These are our little snippets, right? And this week I wanted to revisit my conversation with the one and only, my great friend, Ploma Faith. Okay, she is simply incredible and one of the first guests I ever had on Great Company. Now, honestly, she blew me away with how honest she was about love and heartbreak and how it fuels her incredible music. And even before I met Ploma, she thought she was going to hate me. And then actually, we've got on so well. I think it's because she thinks I'm posh. Now, I learned so much from Ploma, and I know you will too. And listen, guys, while I have you, we have some exciting news. Mad, Sad and Bad with Ploma Faith, her show, is back for Series 4, giving us all the mad, sad and bad moments you didn't know you needed. We make it a jam pot. She's incredible. And the new series features a brilliant mix of guests from Letitia Wright to Miguel and Davina McCool. Now, you don't want to miss it. Okay, so new episodes, get this, launch every Tuesday from the 6th of October. So sit back and enjoy this great moments with my buddy, Paloma Faith. Speaker 1 (1:10) Do you think you're lovable? Speaker 2 (1:12) Very. Speaker 1 (1:16) But that's Speaker 2 (1:17) great. Speaker 1 (1:17) That's a really positive thing because sometimes... But I also Speaker 2 (1:21) think I'm really despisable. But I'm just like... No, you're not despisable. In my life, I've had a lot of... You're Speaker 1 (1:26) opinionated. Yeah, I've had an experience Speaker 2 (1:28) of people being really like, I love her and I've had the opposite. And Speaker 1 (1:33) I quite like that because Speaker 2 (1:34) it would be awful if you went into a room and people were like, I don't really remember her. Speaker 1 (1:39) I don't know if they were just like... Speaker 2 (1:42) She's awful. Speaker 1 (1:43) Do you think for you, like, so with your new album, could you obviously put your heart and soul into your music? Mm Speaker 2 (1:48) -hmm. Speaker 1 (1:49) Do you think for you that is your one place that kind of never, always is supporting you, always is there to help you, always is never backing up? That is your place of comfort. So when you want to have a sounding board, when you want to release all of these emotions, you can put it into an album and write it. Speaker 2 (2:05) Yeah, it's therapeutic. It's cathartic. Absolutely. But I also do a lot of actual therapy as well, and I find that... Speaker 2 (2:14) important like I noticed when I when I don't go for a while that I'm I need it but Speaker 1 (2:21) I Speaker 2 (2:22) don't think anger is a negative emotion either because I was raised to believe anger was a negative emotion and my mum when I was growing up was always like if I hit something or threw something she'd be like I can't believe you you're just like your father because that was like the biggest insult and Speaker 2 (2:41) Because my dad's a very angry man. Speaker 1 (2:43) Why was that the biggest insult? Because he's a very angry man and it didn't get him anywhere. Speaker 2 (2:48) But I've also got something like I get stress-related alopecia and I think all of that's like, and it's always emotional. If I'm stressed at work, my hair doesn't fall out. But if it's emotional, my hair starts falling out. And it's something to do with like the body kind of like eating itself if you don't release those feelings. So it's really important that you do. Speaker 1 (3:11) With writing this recent album, when you finish it and you put it out there, is there a sense of calm? Is there a sense of completion? Do you have that when you write your music? Especially when you complete it, or is there a sense of sadness when you complete it because then you can't go back into that place? Because actually there's comfort being in trauma sometimes. Speaker 2 (3:32) Well, just because