Paloma Faith has revealed that she suffered a miscarriage while filming Pennyworth, but didn’t tell anyone out of fear of losing work.
The London-born singer and actress, 42, previously opened up about losing her baby in 2021, while comforting Jessie J after she shared her own heartbreak about miscarrying in a post online.Faith appeared in American series Pennyworth as the character Bet Skykes for all three seasons of the Batman prequel, which ran from 2019 until 2022.Speaking to Elizabeth Day on the How To Fail podcast to promote her sixth studio album, The Glorification of Sadness, which is released on February 16, she said: "It started at work and it was a fight scene on Pennyworth. I just thought to myself, it's gone so I might as well carry on with what I was doing. I had to go to the toilet 9 times.
"I told them I ate something bad last night because I knew if I told them they would escort me home. I didn't want to. I would just be going home without work and without a viable pregnancy."
Faith shares two daughters with former husband Leyman Lahcine but admits that the journey to motherhood involved several rounds of IVF which she found "harrowing".
Her first round was enough to put anyone off after experiencing an ectopic pregnancy. An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a fertilised egg implants itself outside of the uterus, most commonly in the fallopian tubes.After that, she then discovered that she had two viable pregnancies "quite quickly" in 2016.
The birth of her first child in 2016 was no walk in the park, with the How To Leave A Man hit-maker describing it as "actually unbearable" after she was told she would have a premature baby after she suffered PROMs (premature rupture of membranes) at six months.
Due to what was happening, the former The Voice UK judge explained that she had just seven hours of sleep across one week and needed to undergo an emergency cesarean section.
This turn of events sae her suffer various fertility issues as well as post-partum psychosis and she was hallucinating due to the severe lack of sleep. She also believes she was depressed for several years without even realising it.
Undeterred, she set her sights on expanding her family and eventually welcomed her second daughter in February 2021 after three failed transfers.
