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  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Jessie J wants to work in comedy after a difficult year

    The 37-year-old pop star revealed in June she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and after undergoing treatment in 2025, she is ready to move on and enjoy life this year.


    She told Women's Health UK Just As Well podcast: "Next year I'd love to go into stand up. I would love to do comedy more. I'd love to do film.

    "I'm obviously touring a lot next year. I definitely want to make more music. I haven't written a song for three years, but I know it's all there ready to come out.

    "I just want to be happy. Happy, sane, enjoying what I do, calm, healthy, being as present as a mum as I am as at work with some decent tunes out.

    "And maybe doing something that challenges me, whether it's a book or a children's album or comedy or Broadway or film, whatever's going to come will come."

    Jessie - who has son Sky, two, with partner Chanan Colman - also revealed that she was diagnosed with ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ) in 2023 after giving birth.

    She said: "It was when I had a baby. I just could not hide it anymore...When I got the responsibility of Sky, and just the way my brain runs, when you're a new mum...the burnout days were insane...

    "So I got diagnosed and then I've really been working on it, having some therapy, learning about what it feels like, when it gets worse, what makes it better."

    She also has OCD (Obsessive compulsive disorder) but is working on managing both.

    She said: "I'm working on it to improve it and to be the best version of myself, but also celebrate that that's how my brain works, and that's okay...I do believe that if ADHD is in the right environment, it's a superpower, you know?

    "The way my brain works, and the things that I can get done in a day is not normal for most people.

    "My time management, because my OCD's come off the back of my ADHD...I style myself, I do so much myself and I love that about myself.

    "Some days I can fall off the ladder and land in a pile of s***...Everyone goes 'okay, now it's time to slow it down and I listen'.

    "I never used to when I was younger, but I listen now. I feel like I'm building a world around me that means that I can flourish in my ADHD and not feel like I'm hiding."

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