Jessie J has nothing but prayers for her late friend and bodyguard.
The singer recently released Don’t tease me with a good time last week, her first album in seven years.
Jessie, 37, battled early breast cancer this year and had a mastectomy after welcoming her son with partner Chanan Colman in 2023.
The star has now opened up about her life struggles in the album, including abortion, grief and loss. As a heartfelt tribute, Jessie dedicates her new song I never know what to his late friend and bodyguard Dave, who took his own life in 2018.
Holding back her emotions as she spoke to This morning hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard about the song, she said: ‘He was my safety for many, many years.’
‘Anyone who’s had a close relationship with someone where it’s one on one, especially when I got famous, he’s the one I’d call and say, ‘I’ve got to go for a walk, it’s too much for me’, and he was there for me so much.
‘He decided he didn’t want to be here seven years ago and five years ago I wrote this song – I wasn’t going to put it on the album but when I played it for my new team they said, “You should, it’s going to help so many people”.
‘It’s not an easy song to sing, but it’s been incredible to see how people have responded to it in the last few weeks. He was like my big brother’.
The singer also honored the four-year anniversary of her heartbreaking miscarriage with a moving track titled Comes in Waves.
