He celebrates the release of his 9th studio album ‘Turn on the light’British singer-songwriter Will Young Check in Jamie Laing Appears on the latest episode of the Radio 1 DJ’s podcast. ‘Awesome company with Jamie Laing’.
Their conversation included drugs, lunches with Queen, Will’s influence on people, Elton John sending him flowers, sexual objectification, coming out as gay, sex, his new album, and being single.
Young also talks about schools and teachers who are physically abusive, speaks out against schools, and talks about family conflict, grief, and filming. ‘Who do you think you are?’His brother’s suicide, humor, death, vulnerability in love, a broken heart, Strictly Come Dancing At that time, I felt like committing suicide.
Will… who appeared on Strictly Come Dancing
I was so sick at the time, I couldn’t work, I couldn’t do shows. I was mentally damaged. I had really bad anxiety. I had agoraphobia and dissociative disorder. So one day, I sat down and I just couldn’t recognize myself. It was just so depersonalized, I couldn’t recognize the person. I knew who the person sitting across from me was, but literally, I didn’t know. I knew it was Fay. She was my manager. She’d been my manager for a long time, but I knew who she was. I thought I was crazy, and I couldn’t recognize myself in the mirror, so I looked in the mirror and I knew it was me. But I didn’t know. It was crazy.
I tried to pull out, I tried not to, but it wasn’t the Strictly team, it was my managers at the time who forced me to do it. I don’t have a manager like that anymore. So, you know, I tried to look after myself. It was horrible. It was horrible, horrible, horrible. And I think something happened.
Will to fame…
I was so focused on my career, but fame came later. To be honest, I was laser-focused. I was like, “I have to work for five more years and do a second album.” And luckily, I did, and it sold twice as many copies as the first one! It was amazing. It sold a million copies in three and a half weeks.
Willingness to be vulnerable in love…
I don’t know if I’ve fully figured out how to be vulnerable in a relationship. What I do know is that I thrive on parameters. If there are no parameters and people aren’t doing their jobs, I don’t feel safe. You can be vulnerable even in safe spaces.
Will Young – The Worst (Official Music Video)
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