Sia is opening up about her experience with depression that hit after her 2016 divorce from filmmaker Erik Anders Lang: ‘I was in bed for three years.’
Sia recently opened up about a dark period of her life following her split from ex-husband Erik Anders Lang in 2016.
“I got divorced and that really threw me for a loop,” the singer said this week on Zane Lowe’s Apple Music Beats 1 podcast. “That one 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.”
In the rare interview, the “Unstoppable” artist, whose full name is Sia Furler, discussed her upcoming album, “Reasonable Women,” which has been more than six years in the making. And she said production of the album happened only after she was able to process her depression after her two-year marriage to Lang.
Sia, 47, and Lang, 42, a documentary filmmaker, married in August 2014 at a Palm Springs ceremony after keeping their dating relationship private. In December 2016, the couple announced their divorce, with a spokesperson for the Grammy winner commenting that the pair were “dedicated to remaining friends,” according to TMZ.
Even after her three-year period at a standstill, as she and producers started to chip away at her new album, Sia said, “It was really hard to get me out of bed.
