Paloma Faith has opened up about the difficulties of dating after her painful divorce, saying: "It's like the Wild West." The Only Love Can Hurt Like This hitmaker, 42, is single after splitting from ex Leyman Lahcine. And while she insists she has no regrets - saying she chose not to "stay and suffer" - she admitted that the dating scene has posed it's own challenges for her.
Speaking in an exclusive interview, she said: "It's just a Wild West, isn't it? I feel like when I was single, before I broke up with my kids' dad it was like - we could just tell if you had a connection with somebody by chemistry and now it's sort of bureaucratic. It's like box ticking. "But then also there is an argument to say that nature brings you together, and if you're forcing a connection with people that you shouldn't be meeting.
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I mean, I haven't been on that many. I think I've been on five dates since breaking up with my kids dad, and two of them were not through an app. "There's this weird thing that you have with people you've met on an app, where you meet and you're both like: 'We're both single, we're both this, we're both that.
So we should just try it. (But) I don't know if I would fancy you if I just met you in a bar. I'm doing it all based on what's on paper.
' And then when you kiss.. everyone keeps going to me: 'You need to kiss him, you need to kiss him to feel if you've got chemistry.
" Paloma also admitted that being famous adds an extra obstacle to the world of dating, because o.
