In a series of emotional Instagram posts, singer Chrisette Michele went public with the unfortunate series of events that have plagued her in recent months.
She started with her career, which she says has plummeted since she made the decision to perform at Trump’s presidential inauguration.
“If social media wanted to pull me down, I guess they succeeded as it pertains to Capitol & Caroline records,” Michele wrote. “I complete an entire album and my label decides to walk away from me. Capitol records. I was quiet for a few days… I go into the studio and literally poured out my heart and soul and the label decides to walk away from me? It’s one thing to be a strong black woman, it’s another thing to be a strong black woman who has to fight against the worst odds. I went from someone being revered and loved to facing putting out an album in the worst climate of my musical career.”
Michele was transparent with her struggles with depression and thoughts of suicide.
“People ask me how I’m so positive after all I’ve been through. When you’re laying in bed naked, next to a bottle of Bacardi and Xanax. When you wear pajamas morning and night,” she wrote in a separate post on Instagram. “When you don’t pick up the phone for weeks, months. When you’re afraid to look at social media.”
She revealed that she suffered a miscarriage while performing intense physical training to distract herself from the career backlash.
“Something came out of me. It was my child. The one my love and I worked so hard on. I never knew I could allow myself to be so broken that my physical body would break down. A miscarriage? Me? This experience of a broken nation showed itself in my own physical body,” Michele said. “That was when I knew I had to pull it together. Heal, forgive. Just because I had a negative experience didn’t mean I had to become negative and broken.”
Sources: The Blast.com, TMZ.com, PageSix TV, Instagram
