Kesha Says Songwriting Led Her to Break Up With Her Fiancé

Kesha could say that writing songs has led her to be free. In a new interview with SiriusXM’s The Morning Mash Up on Thursday, the pop star revealed that writing music is what led her to split with her ex-fiancé.

“Basically, I find that writing songs leads me to my truth,” she told the radio show. “I was engaged and I didn’t wanna be anymore and I didn’t even realize that I was gonna break up with him until I wrote a song about it, and then I listened back to it, and I was like, ‘Oh no, I’m gonna break up with him now.’”

“But it led me to my truth ’cause I can’t lie in the song. You can’t lie in a song,” she said. “Your song will suck [if so], but also, that’s not what it’s there for, you know?”

It’s unclear which former partner she was talking about, but she told Elle last year that her ex-boyfriend broke up with her because she took someone else to one of Taylor Swift’s parties.

“I had a feeling that he was in it for the wrong reasons and was a bit of a starfucker,” she said. “I decided to test that theory and took one of my friends instead of him to Taylor Swift’s party. He came over the next day and broke up with me.”

In the new interview with SiriusXM, Kesha spoke about learning (and teaching) “the alchemy of pop” on songwriting retreats.

“I believe creating is really important, and I feel like we all are healthier if we have a place to have an outlet for our emotions, so all of these people come into my class and I get down to what is going on with them, for real though,” she said. “Behind the mask, behind your titles. I don’t care how much money you make, how do you feel, and like really how do you feel? And so, we sit and meditate together, we journal together.”

The new interview comes several weeks after Kesha announced her album Period, which is out July 4. She also released the album’s single “Yippee-Ki-Yay” in March as the album’s third single, after last year’s “Delusional” and “Joyride.”