Kesha didn’t let an injury keep her from performing. During an interview on Reclaiming With Monica Lewinsky, the singer revealed that she once powered through after injuring herself during a concert.
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“I remember I tore my ACL on stage. That was brutal, and in, like, song three or something,” Kesha recalled. “I was playing a festival in Dubai and I tore my ACL and I f**king got up and I played guitar and I sang and I finished the f**king show.”
The press, Kesha said, had a different take on what went down during the show, though.
“I wake up the next day and I’m like, ‘Wow, I am such a f**king monster badass,’” she remembered. “And I wake up and there’s an article on TMZ saying I was drunk at the show.”
The false report particular perturbed Kesha because she “literally, absof**kinglutely never have one drink before a show ever.”
“Well, I did one time, the first time I played Lollapalooza in 2009,” she admitted, before explaining that that one experience turned her off to the practice.
“After that… I was like ‘OK, I’m never doing that again. I’m never drinking before a show,’” she said.
Kesha’s New Chapter
The interview came the same month that Kesha released her latest album, . (PERIOD). Speaking to People about the LP, Kesha noted how liberated she feels getting to release her music through her own independent label, Kesha Records, after years-long legal woes.
“It makes me really emotional,” she said. “I have a phone alert that says, ‘You are free. Are you following your joy?’ For so many years I couldn’t say that [I was]. Now I’m reteaching my body how to be a free woman, dance like a free woman, sing like a free woman.”
“I got to put something to bed and get back to regular programming,” Kesha added. “For this chapter I really wanted to capture the moments where I felt liberated, safe, happy, playful, hot, horny, but all of it was coming from a whole place; I feel very whole.”
Now that she’s in a better place personally, Kesha said, “all of my energy gets to focus back on my true purpose—helping people feel seen, loved, safe, and f**king entertained as hell.”
“My power is all back in my hands,” she said, “and I’m excited.”
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