Sia Says She Didn’t Leave The Bed For Three Years Amid ‘Severe Depression’ After Divorce From Erik Anders Lang

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The songstress gets candid about her heartbreaking spilt from Erik Anders Lang. Sia is getting candid about experiencing extreme lows amid a gut-wrenching divorce.

The songstress split from her first husband, Erik Anders Lang, in 2016 after two years of marriage. “I got divorced and that really threw me for a loop,” she says in a new interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music 1. “There 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.” The 47-year-old artist is gearing up for the release of her upcoming album, Reasonable Woman, her first full-length offering in eight years.

In her new interview, she shares that it’s comprised of songs she’s been writing “here and there” over the “last six, seven years.” READ MORE: Sia Reveals She Is ‘On The Spectrum’ Two Years After ‘Music’ Controversy Over Autism Depiction “Finally, it just turned out we had enough songs to make an album, enough good ones,” she continues. “I just rely on my management to tell me when we’ve got enough good ones, because I don’t really… I can tell when I think one is particularly good, I think I can tell, but they tell me when we’ve got 11 or 12 or 13 enough good ones, real good ones.” Reasonable Woman is set to be released in Spring 2024, but for now, Sia is giving fans a taste of what to expect by dropping a new single, “Gimme Love.” In the cover art, she appears to be snuggling with baby pigs while putting her “don’t think” hand tattoo on display.