Lizzo has credited her therapist for giving her the “courage to be vulnerable as a vocalist”.
The “Good As Hell” star suffered an emotional breakdown while on tour in 2018. Afterwards she decided to start seeing a therapist.
The songbird described her breakdown as “really scary”. Lizzo told Rolling Stone magazine that “being vulnerable with someone I didn’t know, then learning how to be vulnerable with people that I do know, gave me the courage to be vulnerable as a vocalist.”
Shortly before heading out on the road for her 2018 tour, the 31-year-old, real name Melissa Jefferson, split from her boyfriend – whose identity she has kept secret.
While the split was a difficult time for the star, it’s one she knew she needed to go through.
“As f**ked up as it sounds, I needed that heartbreak experience,” she explained. “I’m not sad, because I use the pain so constructively. It’s inevitable. The pain is human experience.”
With the help of her therapist and a new outlook on life, Lizzo is working on a “relationship with my family” and opening herself “up to friendships”.
“I open myself up to the idea of children, which is big for me, ’cause my albums are my babies,” she added.