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  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    FKA Twigs has suffered some "really brutal and violent" times in her life

    The 37-year-old singer says she was "an idiot in my 20s" as she reflected on how much she has grown and changed in the years since.


    She told ELLE UK: "I'm reaching that age where I can really look back at my life and I can see so many things that have been beautiful and amazing, and other things that have been really brutal and violent.

    "I'm seeing that I can hold my love of life and my artistry and the beauty of my life, and I can also hold the brutality and the sadness and the violence. I can hold things at the same time, and that feels really good. Life is like a raspberry. It's bitter but it's sweet.

    "I've always wanted to be at this perfect cross point of growth and youth - to be able to be young and sexy and healthy - and also not be an idiot like I was in my 20s."

    Last year, Twigs - born Tahliah Debrett Barnett - settled her domestic abuse lawsuit against her ex-boyfriend, actor Shia LaBeouf, 39.

    Twigs had filed a lawsuit in 2020 for damages due to alleged sexual battery, assault, and emotional distress inflicted during their relationship.

    She requested to dismiss all claims with prejudice, meaning she cannot bring the case back to court in the future.

    Meanwhile, back in 2017, Twigs had laparoscopic surgery to remove six large fibroids and was open about how it affected her self-confidence, before embarking on her own journey of healing.

    She said: "People were like, 'Where did Twigs go?' I went through this crazy thing that, it turns out, so many women go through.

    "I started to really listen to myself. My body was almost reliving physical experiences I've had without a physical trigger. I think, ultimately, I've had to heal my nervous system and I'm not very good at being told what to do, so I've had to figure it out myself."

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