Jessie J has nothing but prayers for her late friend and bodyguard.
The singer recently released Don’t bother me with a good time last week, their first album in seven years.
Jessie, 37, battled early breast cancer this year and underwent a mastectomy after welcoming her son with partner Chanan Colman in 2023.
The star has now opened up about her life struggles on the album, including miscarriage, grief and loss. As a heartfelt tribute, Jessie dedicates her new song to him I will never know what to his late friend and bodyguard Dave, who took his own life in 2018.
Holding back his emotions as he spoke This morning Presenters Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard on the song, she said: “He was my security for many, many years.”
“Anyone who’s been in a close relationship with anyone where it’s one-on-one, especially when I became famous, he was the one I would call and say, ‘I need to go for a walk, this is too much for me,’ and he was there for me so much.”
“I decided I didn’t want to be here seven years ago, and five years ago I wrote this song; I wasn’t going to put it on the album, but when I played it for my new team they said, ‘You have to do it, it will help a lot of people.’
‘It’s not easy to sing, but seeing how people have reacted in recent weeks has been incredible. He was like my older brother.
The singer also paid tribute to the fourth anniversary of her heartbreaking miscarriage with a moving song titled Comes in. Waves.
