SHE was the happy-go-lucky Noughties pop star who notched up three No1 hits singing about partying and boys. But in the decade that followed the release of PIXIE LOTT’s last album, that positive persona slipped away as a stint in West End play Breakfast At Tiffany’s led to a breakdown. The Mama Do singer received rave reviews for her 2016 stint in the show, which also went on a nationwide tour.
But she has opened up for the first time about how playing leading lady Holly Golightly — portrayed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie — left her “broken”. In an exclusive chat, Pixie, who has just announced her comeback album Encino, which will be out in September, said: “It was based on the book, not the film . "The film is a lot lighter.
But in the book she loses everything — her husband, her baby, her life, her cat. Everything. “By the end of the show, I was on the floor of the stage crying my eyes out.
Night after night after night for about a year, eight shows a week. “I ended up doing that more than I was being myself. “By the end, I was a completely broken version of myself.
I couldn’t function properly at all. “It really affected me mentally. And I’d never had anything like that before.
I was living with it for a couple of years. It took me a while to get out of that frame of mind.” Pixie, who wed model OLIVER CHESHIRE in 2022, continued: “I was Googling everything to try and find ways to kind of get out.
“The first thing that popped up that .