Kesha in SELF.Photo:Jason Kim
Jason Kim
Kesha’s legal battles have played out in a public forum, but behind the scenes, the singer has been waging a battle with her health as well.
And for the June cover ofSelf,the Los Angeles native is addressing these struggles — and how she’s managed to navigate them.
It started, the 36-year-old says, with having a gentler outlook.
Kesha on the cover of SELF.Jason Kim
But it can be challenging, especially in light of her brutal ongoing legal battle with ex-collaboratorLukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald, whomshe first sued in 2014for sexual, emotional, and physical abuse. He filed a countersuit the same year.
And Kesha (full name: Kesha Rose Sebert) admits the title is a nod to her legal issues. “I had to shed light on the darker sides of what happens in my mind. This was me saying, ‘Yeah, I’ve had this self-imposed, implied gag order since I can remember, ’cause I’m still in litigation.’”
The case is expected to go to trial in July.
The singer’s also been dealing with health struggles: Although she opened up about her disordered eating —specifically, bulimia— in 2022, the singer also learned she had CVID (common variable immunodeficiency), an immune disorder that results in low levels of the proteins needed to fight infection, according tothe Mayo Clinic. It can lead to increased respiratory and digestive infections, among other conditions.
Although she declines to go into specifics, Kesha does tellSELFthat after a New Year’s Eve performance in the Bahamas left her too weak to walk, she ended up in the hospital.
“I finally feel recovered, but it took a couple months,” she says. “It was horrifying.”
Now that she’s back and promotingGag Order, the girl who famously sang that she’ll “brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack” Daniels on her massive 2009 hit “Tik Tok” is taking things much more slowly.
“I have a support system in place [of therapists] that I speak to weekly or monthly,” she says. “[After] not allowing myself to eat or enjoy food for so long in my life, I really turned a corner, and now, I…love food. I started cooking; I go to the farmers market.”
And before she takes the stage, she admits that while “People probably think I’m back there doing shots, and [my routine is] the most zen s–– you’ve ever seen.”
source: people.com
