06-05-2025
Paloma Faith: ‘Adele gave me the best tip for motherhood'
Singer-songwriter Paloma Faith, 43, was born in east London. She has released six albums and the hits Can't Rely on You and Only Love Can Hurt Like This. She won a Brit award in 2015 for best female solo artist, was a judge on the talent show The Voice and has starred in the films St Trinian's and The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, and the TV series Pennyworth. She lives in Hackney with her two daughters, aged eight and four, whom she shares with her ex-partner, Leyman Lahcine, a French artist.
I've been waiting for my mum to die my whole life. She had a brain tumour in her pituitary gland when she was pregnant with me. Before that she'd had five