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Y<\/span>ou couldn\u2019t make it up, Jessie J says. There she was preparing for her first album release in eight years, ecstatically in love with her newish partner, and finally the mother of a toddler having struggled to conceive for a decade, on top of the\u00a0world. Then in March she was diagnosed with breast\u00a0cancer.<\/p>\n The singer-songwriter, real name Jessica Cornish, is famous for telling it as it is. The album, Don\u2019t\u00a0Tease Me With a Good Time, was supposed to be an open book, dealing with every ounce of devastation she\u2019d experienced since she last recorded\u00a0music (endometriosis, miscarriage, failed relationships, gaslighting, suicide) with typical candour. The first single, No\u00a0Secrets, was released in April. But by then there\u00a0was\u00a0a\u00a0mighty secret. The cancer. Then second single, Living My Best Life, came out in May and Cornish was giving interviews about how she was living her best life, while\u00a0still secretly living with breast cancer. A\u00a0month later she went public, and in early July she had a mastectomy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n She gives me her best \u201cWhat the fuck?\u201d look. \u201cI\u00a0come out with a song called No Secrets. I\u2019m doing every interview, and they\u2019re, like, \u2018So what\u2019s new with you?\u2019 and I\u2019m, like, \u2018Erm, yeah, nothing \u2026\u2019\u201d Cornish has just had to cancel tour dates because she\u2019s still waiting for reconstructive surgery.<\/p>\n We\u2019re at a photo studio in London. She is wearing a beige fake-leather jacket, blue jeans with elaborate white patches, cream boots and oversized specs. Think biker chic meets 1970s Nana Mouskouri. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m in the 70s and I should have a boyfriend with a big tache.\u201d Easy Rider, I say, thinking of the film. \u201cThat\u2019s what people called me at school!\u201d She grins. Cornish is quick, irreverent and filter-free. She says she has always fancied doing comedy, and is hoping to make her standup debut next year. \u201cI love making people laugh. On stage I basically roast the audience.\u201d<\/p>\n Video of Jessie J twirling around in a strapless black dress <\/p>\n Cornish was preparing for an appearance at the Baftas when she found a lump. \u201cI immediately went to get it looked at, had an ultrasound, and they were, like, \u2018It looks like nothing; you\u2019ve got really good dense breast tissue.\u2019 And I was, like, \u2018But I can feel it. I\u2019ve got an achy arm and pins and needles in my hands whenever I wake up.\u2019 And they said, \u2018Well, let\u2019s just do a biopsy.\u2019 That was 28 March, the day after my birthday.\u201d It was a\u00a0Friday. The doctor told her if it was bad news she\u2019d call on the Monday. By then Cornish had convinced herself it was nothing. The way she tells it, it was simply too inconvenient to get cancer when she had so much on.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re two weeks away from launching this thing after eight years without an album and four years without a single. And she [the doctor] texted and said, \u2018Are you free at six?\u2019 And I was, like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s a Zoom, it won\u2019t be anything.\u2019 So I jump on the Zoom thinking it\u2019s all going to be good, and she goes, \u2018Are you sitting down?\u2019 You know that sad tone they use? And she says, \u2018I\u2019m so, so sorry, but your test results have come back as high-grade cancer cells.\u2019\u201d How did you respond? \u201cI said, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s not ideal, is it? That\u2019s not fucking great timing.\u2019 The first thing I thought was, \u2018I can\u2019t die because my son needs me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Men have called me difficult because I\u2019m a strong person who understands who I am<\/span>Dress: Aje<\/span><\/p>\n She found the surgery terrifying and absurd. \u201cI hate being put under. They walk you down. You know when you have emergency surgery you roll down in a bed, but this time I just strolled down with a gown on and my bum hanging out. You feel like you\u2019re in an episode of Black Mirror.\u201d But, Cornish says, she\u2019s been lucky. No chemo, no radiotherapy, just the op. \u201cCancer sucks, man, but you know what? Thank fuck I found it early. I had the mastectomy four months ago and my right breast now looks like a grapefruit under a tight bedsheet.\u201d Another grin. \u201cI got to keep the nipple, though.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n The next operation is both medical and cosmetic. Her boobs, she notes, are now \u201cdifferent sizes. <\/strong>They didn\u2019t do an implant as small as my original. How rude<\/em>! I\u00a0thought, no need to bully me, I\u2019m already having a\u00a0rough time. So<\/em> rude! It\u2019s funny because I said I\u2019d never get my boobs done because I\u2019ve got OCD, and I know they\u2019d never be perfect. Cancer ruined that plan.\u201d<\/p>\n Cornish is no stranger to illness. She thinks her perspective on the cancer has been so positive because she\u2019s familiar with health crises. They have often coincided with career highs, serving as a tap on the shoulder, or punch in the stomach, to remind her not to take anything for granted. \u201cHonestly, I feel life goes, \u2018You having a good time? Sit down.\u2019 Ever since I was a child, it has always gone alongside moments of success for me; something severe or obscure has happened to my health.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/span>\u2018My mum and dad did a great job of making sure my character wasn\u2019t defined by my worst days.\u2019 Top: Patou<\/span><\/p>\n She takes me back to her 11-year-old self, already making her debut starring in the West End in Whistle Down the Wind (she was cast at the age of nine). That\u2019s when she was diagnosed with the heart condition Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, which can cause a\u00a0fast heartbeat as well as dizziness and palpitations. \u201cI was going in and out of rehearsals on an IV drip, and going back into hospital at night.\u201d She fast-forwards six years, and 17-year-old Jess has joined the girl group Soul\u00a0Deep while attending the Brit School. \u201cI just got my first record deal, and I had a\u00a0stroke. Then when I was about to put out music in 2020 I had a\u00a0car crash and my larynx moved up and I\u00a0couldn\u2019t sing for a year.\u201d<\/p>\n Oi, I say, slow down, I can\u2019t keep up. You really had a stroke at 17? She nods. \u201cI was on the train, and my face dropped. I felt awful and I went to the GP, and she said, \u2018I think you\u2019ve had a minor stroke, I\u2019m going to call an ambulance.\u2019 I was in hospital for four to five weeks.\u201d She smiles. \u201cI\u2019ve clearly got an addiction to being diagnosed with things. So maybe the cancer is part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n Did illness define her childhood? Not at all, she says. \u201cMy mum and dad always did such a great job of not\u00a0making that the definitive thing in my life, and\u00a0not\u00a0making me define my character by my worst days. That was amazing and has carried through to now.\u201d Ultimately, she reckons her health issues have\u00a0been the making of her. \u201cThey\u2019ve made me live life more, eat better, work out more. Made me live in\u00a0the\u00a0moment.\u201d<\/p>\n I notice a tattooed open circle on her left wrist. What does that represent? \u201cMy mum, my dad and me got this on my dad\u2019s 60th in New York. It\u2019s a circle of love, and my sisters were too pussy to get it. So now I\u2019m their favourite child!\u201d She clearly adores her family. Cornish, aged 37, grew up in Essex with two\u00a0older sisters who were more academic than her and\u00a0were both head girls at secondary school. Their mother was\u00a0a nursery school teacher; their father a\u00a0mental health social worker.<\/p>\n At 16, she started at the Brit School. Cornish was in the same year as Adele (with whom she sang in lunchtime sessions). In\u00a0the past, she has said the Brit School was cut\u2011throat. What does she think students wanted more \u2013 to be good or to be famous? \u201cI think people just wanted to be the centre of attention. We were all teenagers who wanted to be the loudest. Everything I wore was green and I\u2019d\u00a0draw music notes on my face and I was a hair model for Vidal\u00a0Sassoon. So I literally looked like I was going to Star Trek school dressed as a duck.\u201d<\/p>\n Did she like the Brit School? \u201cI loved<\/em> it. You know what I\u00a0loved the most? That it taught me how to be streetwise because I had to get five trains there every day to get from Essex to Croydon. I had to get up at the crack of dawn, so it gave me discipline. But I loved it. I loved learning, I loved it being different every day, loved not wearing uniform, the auditions. I would audition for everything. That\u2019s how I got into the girl band that got me the first deal.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/span>\u2018I love the success, but I don\u2019t love being famous.\u2019 Dress and shoes: Lanvin. Bangles: Dinosaur Designs<\/span><\/p>\n Cornish first experienced success aged 21 as part of the team who wrote Party in the USA for Miley Cyrus in 2009. A year later, she had her first hit\u00a0with Do It Like a Dude. The song was three minutes of promotional self-referencing (\u201cHey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey \u2026 J-J-J-J Jessie J\u201d), female empowering, male parodying, double-entendre indulging (\u201cBoys, you, you need to lick my dollar \u2026 Boys, g-getting hot under the collar\u201d) poptastic filth. This was also her debut as Jessie J.<\/p>\n Jessica, Jessie, Jess. I ask her which name she prefers. \u201cJess,\u201d she says instantly. \u201cI hate Jessie. It\u2019s like a dog\u2019s name. \u2018Jessie, come back here!\u2019\u201d She whistles herself over, as if she were a dog. \u201cThe J makes it somehow nicer. It changes the whole thing.\u201d<\/p>\n Do It Like a Dude was followed by Price Tag, her first No\u00a01 and still her most famous song. Price Tag is infectious bubble-gum pop about the primacy of happiness over money. But Cornish says it is also a\u00a0critique of the industry she\u00a0had barely entered. \u201cIt\u00a0was about being a statistic and a number at a record label and it not being\u00a0about talent or the truth.\u201d She sings a line to illustrate her\u00a0point, as she often does. \u201c\u2018When the sale comes first and the truth comes second just stop\u00a0for\u00a0a\u00a0minute and smile.\u2019 I was already tired of contracts. I was so frustrated when I wrote that song.\u00a0What you were trying\u00a0to say wasn\u2019t important, it was just about how much money can we make from\u00a0this\u00a0person.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n There were many more hits including Domino (another UK No 1), Who You Are (a hymn to being true to yourself in the face of knockbacks, and one of her favourite songs), and 2014\u2019s Bang Bang with Ariane\u00a0Grande and Nicki Minaj (another celebration of female empowerment, and her biggest US hit). After Bang Bang there was one more Top 20 hit \u2026 and then it all ended. Single after single failed to chart. Cornish has not had a hit record for 10 years. She went from one of the hottest properties in pop to has-been overnight. How\u00a0did it affect her? \u201cYou know what? I\u2019m actually lucky in that I\u2019ve never given a shit about No 1s or any of that stuff. Ever<\/em>. It\u2019s just not who I am. And that\u2019s probably why I\u2019ve had so many managers, because so many are like that.\u201d<\/p>\n In a way, she says, failure came as a relief. It allowed her to reclaim some of her anonymity. \u201cI love the success, but I don\u2019t love being famous. The hardest part of fame is losing the invisibility you have when you\u2019re not successful that enables you to create the things that make you successful in the first place. So when I\u00a0dropped off, I had a shaved head, nobody recognised me, I could go back to doing some normal shit.\u201d<\/p>\n But she also admits she lost belief in what she was doing. The successful songs from her last hit album Sweet Talker were written by other people and meant nothing to her. \u201cI just retreated and said, \u2018I can\u2019t do this no more.\u2019 I just kind of gave up. So I took a break and said, \u2018I\u2019m done with the industry.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n She went away and recorded the resolutely uncommercial album R.O.S.E. about \u201cthe struggle of finding my feet from the age of 25 to 30\u201d. She loved it, but\u00a0nobody bought it. \u201cThe label didn\u2019t really support me because they didn\u2019t get it. It wasn\u2019t Bang Bang. But\u00a0some of my favourite songs that I\u2019ve written are\u00a0on\u00a0R.O.S.E.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s interesting that she says her early music stopped meaning anything to her. Last year, it was reported that she had made \u00a37.6m in 2023, and there was speculation that she had done so by selling the rights to her music. Is that true? \u201cNo<\/em>!!!\u201d She laughs. But Cornish is a useless liar. She looks embarrassed. \u201cI don\u2019t know! Errr. I might have done.\u201d She comes to a stop and, to the tune of Total Eclipse of the Heart, she sings: \u201cMoving on to another question because I don\u2019t know what to say to that one.\u201d I was just curious, I say. \u201cMusic\u2019s supposed to come and go,\u201d she says. \u201cLet it go. It\u2019s like your wardrobe. You\u2019ve got to have a little clearout now and again.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/span>\u2018It was a selfish, amazing life I had in LA. Not the kind of life I could maintain with a child and a partner.\u2019 Blazer and trousers: Rebecca Valance. Shoes: Gianvito Rossi. Necklace: Giovanni Raspini<\/span><\/p>\n While R.O.S.E. flopped commercially, in 2018 she enjoyed her most surprising success when she entered the Chinese talent contest Singer. By then she was living\u00a0in Los Angeles and was a distant memory for\u00a0many\u00a0of us in Britain. \u201cMy managers at the time said,\u00a0\u2018This TV show keeps coming in, and you\u2019d be a\u00a0special guest\u2019, and I said, \u2018Just say yes to it.\u2019 They were, like, \u2018D\u2019you want to know more?\u2019, and I was, like, \u2018Nope, just sign me up, I need a shake-up.\u2019 And that was it. I\u00a0thought I\u00a0was a special guest for three weeks, and I\u00a0land in China and I\u2019m a contestant on a competition and I didn\u2019t even know. I sang Domino on the first show and won that, then I won the next and the next, and they were, like, \u2018D\u2019you want to stay on?\u2019, and I was, like, \u2018Well, yeah!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n The show was regularly watched by 500 million people. After 11 episodes, Cornish got to the final, which had an audience of 1.2 billion. She sang I Will Always Love You, and won the contest. It\u2019s such a moving moment when she realises she\u2019s won. A mix of shock, incomprehension (literally because it\u2019s in Chinese) and euphoria. What did winning mean to her? \u201cOh<\/em>! <\/em>To be celebrated as a\u00a0singer like that, I hadn\u2019t had that before.\u201d Does she think she should have been respected more as a singer? \u201cNo, but I\u00a0always say the people who know I can sing wouldn\u2019t buy my music and the people who buy my music probably don\u2019t know I can sing that way.\u201d<\/p>\n Her new music seems incredibly personal. At times, it feels like the songs are private messages to all the people she\u2019s been closest to throughout her adult life.<\/p>\n Where does the album\u2019s title come from? \u201cI say \u2018Don\u2019t tease me with a good time\u2019 all the time.\u201d She explains it can be genuine, when somebody tempts her with a kind offer. But often it\u2019s sarcastic. She gives me an example. \u201c\u2018So\u00a0do you want to have breast cancer surgery?\u2019 \u2018Don\u2019t tease me with a good time<\/em>!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n The song I Don\u2019t Care ends with her monologuing: \u201cSo let\u2019s raise a glass to us and to those still finding the courage to walk away from the gaslighters, the abusers, the narcissists.\u201d Who are the gaslighters, abusers and narcissists? \u201cThey\u2019re the men in my career and my life that have called me difficult because I\u2019m a strong person who understands who I am.\u201d They said that to your face? \u201cOh yeah, all the time. 100%.\u201d Was this more in her personal or professional life? \u201cMore business. Maybe a\u00a0couple of guys I dated, but nothing serious. I wouldn\u2019t get serious with someone like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n In the song Complicated, she summarises the first decade of her career. I quote her lines back at her. \u201c2010 was the year I didn\u2019t know what I was doing. I sang so loud. Insecure, but nobody knew it.\u201d Yes, she says, well, she didn\u2019t, and she did, and she was.<\/p>\n In 2012, she sings, she broke up with \u201cmy beautiful girlfriend\u201d and \u201cWith the press in my face, called it a\u00a0phase, babe I\u2019m sorry.\u201d When Cornish became famous, she was dating a woman and said she was bisexual. After they split up, she said it was just a phase she was going through, which alienated LGBT+ fans. Thirteen years on, she\u2019s making a public apology \u2013 not to members of the public who took offence, but to her ex. She says she worded it clumsily at the time. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t me saying I\u2019m\u00a0not bisexual. I think I\u2019m always going to be attracted to women. I\u2019m so honest and open about it, but I don\u2019t want a label on it, like \u2018Jessie J the bisexual singer\u2019.\u201d Is\u00a0Jessie still in touch with her ex? \u201cNo, not any more.\u201d She sounds sad about it. Was she upset when she read that you had said was just a phase? Yeah, I\u2019m sure it hurt her because our relationship was amazing and we were really serious. We lived together for a long time; around three years.\u201d<\/p>\n My American friends are scared. They\u2019re not what Trump wants them to look like and be like and feel like<\/p>\n And so Complicated goes on. In 2014, she was told everyone hated her, in 2015 she was told she couldn\u2019t have children, in 2016 and 2017 she grieved for herself, and in 2018 she \u201cmet a Magic Mike, will that ever be forgotten? Cos everything they write, that\u2019s the headline, that\u2019s the topic.\u201d This is a reference to her then boyfriend Channing Tatum who starred in the Magic Mike films. \u201cI played him the song to see if he\u2019s OK with it and he was.\u201d How does she get on with him now? \u201cOh, he\u2019s so sweet. Oh my God, yeah! Channing is such a sweet guy. We were such good friends and had such a good time together.\u201d In this relationship, he was the star and she was the plus one. She says it gave her a taste of what it must have been like for some of her former partners. \u201cIt\u00a0did get frustrating. It felt that everything I read about myself was about him.\u201d<\/p>\n I tell her I think the song Threw It Away is about him, too. (\u201cI gave you my love\/ You threw it away.\u201d) \u201cHaha! That\u2019s funny.\u201d She starts singing it. \u201cYeah, I reckon there\u2019s probably a little bit of that in there,\u201d she concedes. \u201cBut it wasn\u2019t just about him. I dated a\u00a0lot of people when I was in LA and there were lots of men who were, like, \u2018Yeah, ride on my motorbike and I\u2019ll show you around\u2019, and then they just drop you off. That\u2019s the negative of LA.\u201d<\/p>\n She spent a decade there \u2013 her \u201csolo\u201d years. \u201cIt was a\u00a0really selfish, amazing life I had. But it wasn\u2019t the kind of life I could maintain with a child and a partner. When I had Sky I thought I didn\u2019t want to raise my son away from his immediate family. And my partner\u2019s Danish, so we wanted to be closer to Denmark, too.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/span>\u2018I\u2019m so proud of myself. I went full term. I had a C-section, which I didn\u2019t want, but it didn\u2019t matter.\u2019 Coat: Victoria Beckham at Fenwick. Shoes: Guiseppe Zanotti. Necklace: Misho<\/span><\/p>\n Last year, she moved back to Britain with her partner, the Danish-Israeli basketball player Chanan Colman, and Sky. \u201cI just felt the new chapter was going to be here. It was the day that Trump got elected that I left. It was the day we planned to leave, so it felt aligned.\u201d Did she want to be far away from him? \u201cAs far away as possible, please. I feel awful for the people who are still there. So many of my friends are struggling mentally with America right now. It actually scares me that I\u00a0can\u2019t even get into that mindset to try to understand what he does. It\u2019s the polar opposite of what I believe in, which is equality and love and everybody having the freedom to enjoy the life they want to.\u201d Does she think Trump is stopping them from living that life? \u201cOf course he is, yeah. So many of my friends in America are scared because they\u2019re not what he wants them to look like and be like and feel like.\u201d And what is that? \u201cHim<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n Two of the songs on the album are about the death of loved ones. Comes in Waves addresses the baby she lost, with Cornish singing: \u201cI hate how much I miss the future we never made.\u201d In 2021, when she didn\u2019t have a partner, she got pregnant by IVF, and miscarried after 10 weeks. Was it a tough decision to become a\u00a0single mother? \u201cNo,\u00a0I\u00a0wanted to be a mum, and I wasn\u2019t in a relationship. I\u00a0had endometriosis and I\u2019d done all these tests, and they said, \u2018Your egg count is low and if you don\u2019t get pregnant in the next year it\u2019s highly unlikely that you will be able to conceive naturally.\u2019 Obviously, that wasn\u2019t true, because I did in the end.\u201d The lyrics to Comes in Waves are so raw, Cornish wearing her vulnerability like gossamer armour. But it\u2019s also a song of defiance that anticipates the birth of Sky, promising \u201cNext time you come to me I\u2019ll make a place for you to stay\u201d. Again, she sings the line for me. \u201cAnd I did. I fucking did it. I\u2019m so proud of myself. I\u00a0went full term. I had a C-section, which I didn\u2019t want, but it didn\u2019t matter.\u201d Does she feel the baby she lost is still with her? \u201cAlways. Always<\/em>. They say the DNA of a baby stays within you, so the bit of that DNA will be in Sky and in me for ever. But I do feel it didn\u2019t happen because I wasn\u2019t meant to do it on my own.\u201d<\/p>\n The song I\u2019ll Never Know Why is equally painful. Here she berates herself for not seeing that an unnamed friend was \u201clost and hopeless\u201d, and she asks him: \u201cHow could you say goodbye without saying goodbye?\u201d In\u00a02018, soon after she won Singer, her bodyguard and close friend Dave Last died unexpectedly. I ask her if this song is about him. She nods. Silence. Did he take his own life? Again, she nods, struggling for words. \u201cI\u00a0miss him so much, man. He was my guy for seven years. He\u00a0was like my big brother. It makes me so sad that there was a loneliness there that meant it got to that before he would call me. I hope it\u2019s a song that can help people who are left behind. And I also hope it helps people who are thinking of doing it to see a different perspective of what they would leave behind and how much they\u2019re loved and wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n Cornish kept herself together while talking about her miscarriage and cancer, but now the tears come. \u201cHe\u00a0was one of my favourite people in the world,\u201d she says. When they were on tour, he was the first and last person she saw every day. \u201cAfter every show we\u2019d go for a walk and he\u2019d always ask, \u2018Have you got your hoodie?\u2019 I\u2019m performing the song at the Royal Variety Show and I\u2019ll be wearing a hoodie.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n She calls the album her journey through grief. Although it concludes on a positive note (with songs Living My Best Life and H.A.P.P.Y), it ends before the giddy high of having a baby with Colman. Cornish can\u2019t wait to write about this on her next album. She says she\u2019s never loved in the way she loves Colman. \u201cBirthing someone\u2019s child is so unique. It\u2019s for ever engraved in our relationship because I\u2019m looking at my son and it\u2019s literally his and my face mashed together. That\u2019s a\u00a0different kind of love.\u201d<\/p>\n And doubtless she\u2019ll be reflecting about the cancer on her next album. She\u2019s been given the all-clear, but she knows there\u2019s a chance of it returning. Life\u2019s too short to worry about that, though, she says. There\u2019s so much to be getting on with \u2013 motherhood, touring, writing, recording, standup comedy. \u201cI\u2019ve just got to hope it doesn\u2019t come back,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd if it does, then we\u2019ll fucking deal with that when we get to it.\u201d<\/p>\n Jessie J\u2019s new studio album Don\u2019t Tease Me With a\u00a0Good Time is out now.<\/p>\n In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You couldn\u2019t make it up, Jessie J says. There she was preparing for her first album release in eight years, ecstatically in love with her newish partner, and finally the mother of a toddler having struggled to conceive for a decade, on top of the\u00a0world. Then in March she was diagnosed with breast\u00a0cancer. 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