Sia Says She Was “Suicidal” After Music Movie Backlash

Prior to her recent experience, Sia has opened up about her sobriety journey, telling James Corden during a 2016 Carpool Karaoke episode, “I was a singer already for like 10 or 11 years to mediocre success and I was an alcoholic and a drug addict…and I sobered up and decided I didn’t want to be an artist anymore because I was starting to get a little bit famous, and it was destabilizing in some ways. So I thought, what doesn’t exist in pop music at the moment? And it was mystery.”

But, Sia is still taking everything one step at a time, telling the HFPA in an interview last January that in addition to making new music, she would “work on relaxing, and my PTSD and my sobriety and my health.”