Jessie Jis getting real and raw as she returns to music after enduring a pregnancy loss and a cancer diagnosis.
The British singer, 37, broke down in tears while performing her new song "Comes in Waves" during her London show Thursday, noting that it was inspired by her 2021 miscarriage.
The Grammy-nominated "Price Tag" singer, whose real name is Jessica Cornish, introduced the song by explaining that it's about her grief over her pregnancy loss on the anniversary of that traumatic experience.
"Today marks four years that I lost my baby," Jessie told the audience, according to videopublished byThe Daily Mail. "I don't know if anyone has gone through the same thing, but if you have, or you know someone close to you and you saw it, it's really f‑‑‑ing bad."
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The singer added that a miscarriage is "something that you can't ever really prepare to go through."
"This song is for anybody that needs that hug," Jessie said. "I hope this song can help you as it's helped me."
The video shows Jessie having to turn away from the audience to wipe away tears before singing powerful lyrics such as, "There's no one to blame, you just slipped away," "I'm sorry that we never met," and "I hate how much I miss the future that we never made."
Jessie disclosed her miscarriage in November 2021 in an emotional Instagram post (since deleted), explaining that she had "decided to have a baby" on her own but was told there was "no longer a heartbeat" when she went in for a medical checkup.
"Yesterday morning I was laughing with a friend saying 'seriously though how am I going to get through my gig in LA tomorrow night without telling the whole audience I am pregnant,'" she wrote in the caption of a photo of her positive pregnancy test. "By yesterday afternoon I was dreading the thought of getting through the gig without breaking down after going for my 3rd scan and being told there was no longer a heartbeat."
Jessie has sincewelcomed a son, Sky, with boyfriend Chanan Safir Colman.
Her emotional London concert heralded the release of her latest album,Don't Tease Me With a Good Time. In addition to the experience of her miscarriage, the new songs come after she underwent surgery for breast cancer earlier this year and lost her friend and longtime bodyguard Dave in 2018.
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Jessie revealed her breast cancer diagnosis earlier this year by joking that "it's a very dramatic way to get a boob job."
"To get diagnosed with this, as I'm putting out a song called 'No Secrets,' right before putting out a song called 'Living My Best Life,' which was all pre-planned before I found out about this, I mean, you can't make it up," she wrote on Instagram in June. "Before 'No Secrets' come out, I was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. I'm highlighting the word 'early.' Cancer sucks in any form, but I'm holding on to the word 'early.'"
She added that it "breaks my heart that so many people are going through so much. Similar and worse. That's the bit that kills me."
Still, she promised to come back "with massive tits and more music." And now she's following through on that promise.
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