By Hayden Wright
Sia‘s installment of “Carpool Karaoke” on The Late Late Show with James Corden delivered all the hits you hoped for and expected: “Chandelier,” “Elastic Heart,” and even her cover of Rihanna’s “Diamonds,” which the Australian wrote. However, the banter wandered into private corners of the notoriously private singer-songwriter’s evolution as an artist—including addiction and recovery.
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“I only wear this to maintain a modicum of privacy,” she said of the signature monochromatic wig shrouding her face. Corden pressed a bit further, asking how the outrageous looks originally came about.
“I was a singer already for 10 or 11 years…I was an alcoholic and a drug addict, and I sobered up,” she said. “And decided I didn’t want to be an artist anymore because I got a little famous and it was destabilizing in some ways. So I thought, what doesn’t exist in pop music at the moment? And it was mystery. I was like, you know, there’s pictures of people on Instagram at the dentist.”
