Elle King has described finding a “silver lining” following her drunken performance at a concert earlier this year.
The Ex’s & Oh’s singer hit headlines after she fumbled her way through a song and swore profusely during a Dolly Parton tribute event staged at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee back in January.
Elle admitted she was “hammered” at the time, and in an interview with Kaitlyn Bristowe for the Off the Vine podcast that aired on Tuesday, she revealed she has since undergone a “therapeutic programme”.
“After everything that happened in January, I went to a different type of therapeutic programme because I was very sad and nobody really knows what I was going through behind closed doors,” she said. “And I just took that as, A., if it wasn’t this it was going to be something else, and B., I had to heal and deal and go through things. And someone said to me, ‘I think you might find a silver lining or something good that comes out of your experience with that,’ and I’m like, ‘I haven’t found it yet motherf**ker!’ But I feel like I’m a different person. I’m still incredibly anxious constantly, but I was before, so at least I’m a little more conscientious of it.”
Elle postponed concert dates and apologised to fans and country music icon Dolly following the controversy.
“If I just reacted or if I just spoke about it then, it wouldn’t have been from a place of I’m not healed, but I waited to talk about everything until I had better footing because I was not OK. I’m still not OK, I’m a psychopath. You get it. But I also am coming out as a new person, and I’m still very much me. If anything, I’m much more me now than I even have been in the last 20 years,” the 35-year-old added.
Previously, Dolly called Elle a “great girl” and insisted they were on good terms.
“Elle is really a great artist. She’s a great girl, and she’s been going through a lot of hard things lately,” the Jolene hitmaker said in an interview with Extra. “And she just had a little too much to drink.
“So, let’s just forgive that and forget it and move on, ’cause she felt worse than anybody ever could.”
