Jessie J is opening up about struggling with a medical condition that hinders her from being able to sing.
Over the weekend, Jessie J took to Instagram to share a recording of her singing her new single, “I Want Love.” She revealed that the recording was meant for her speech coach, and she shared how her battle against vocal nodules and acid reflux is blocking her from performing it. “Just hearing myself sing [‘I Want Love’] and feel so vulnerable whilst singing bought me to tears,” she wrote.
She continued in her post: “I have never ever to this day (since recording it) been able to sing it because of the pain I am experiencing. Man, it’s been hard not singing. It’s literally my lifeline and my happiness. Being quiet is not something I’m good at. Or makes me feel like myself. Lord knows I’m loud af.”
The singer went more into detail in her Instagram stories, saying she didn’t think she’d be sharing the ongoing issue with the public, as she thought “it would be solved by now. But it is not.”
“In February, I started to feel a burn in my throat constantly. I ignored it for a bit as I presumed it was fatigue from the studio,” she wrote. “When I went to see a doctor I was told I have major acid reflux and nodules because I have continued to sing with acid reflux which was probably caused by the steroids I had taken for my ear late last year.”
The singer said she’s gone through several blood tests and has seen six different doctors. However, despite her getting rest, Jessie J says the nodules will just return. “With rest and little talking/singing the nodules melted away. Like Olaf in the sun. But every doctor has told me if I sing (especially these songs) the nodules will just come right back.”
The singer said she was told she has Meniere’s syndrome; J says several people have reached out to comfort her. “I know that a lot of people suffer from it and I’ve actually had a lot of people reach out to me and give me great advice, so I’ve just been laying low in silence,” she continued. “Now’s the first time I’ve been able to sing and bear it. It could be way worse, it is what it is. I’m super grateful for my health. It just threw me off.”
