Pink tears up talking about heartbreaking death of her children's nanny and her dad

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9 Feb 2023, 17:55

Pink has opened up about parenting, losing loved ones and the impact it has had on her children, Willow, 11, and Jameson, 6. Talking to Women's Health about her new album, Trustfall, the mum-of-two spoke candidly about her private life.

The star explained how they'd just lost the family's beloved nanny, Trish, to cancer, and she helped explain she would be the children's 'angel' before she passed.

Pink said: "She was one of the loves of our life. And so my youngest — talking about this makes me cry — Jameson will walk around the kitchen and go, 'Hey, Grandpa, hey, Trish,'" she said about the death of her father in August 2021 after living with cancer for eight years.

“I kind of feel like we were walking around with this low-level trauma that some of us were aware of and some of us weren’t,” she said.

While on a hike in the middle of a hailstorm, P!nk could hear Jameson talking to his angel: “Trish, I know you’re up there; you’ve got to make the wind stop!”

On her new song When I Get There helping her get through the death of her father, she said: “I’m sorry, it’s a hard first listen.

“I was the same when I first heard that song. Um, I lost my dad in August of 2021. He had cancer for eight years. When that song was sent to me, I was very numb. I don’t grieve in a normal way, like how I see other people grieve.

"They have such instant access to their grief, it seems. I just kind of go numb. It takes me a really long time to unpack that suitcase, and that song was part of the unpacking. I heard it, and I thought, That’s my song.

“My work now is to remember all of the good things because I know sometimes I have a tendency to remember the bad s**t. I want to try to hold on to the good; there was a lot of good."

She describes herself as "goofy,” “cuddly,” and a person who often acts out of guilt, whereas she is often thought of as a “crazy, snarling, man-eating, righteous person”.

She explained about becoming famous in the early 2000s: “I was the perfect person to take all of that flak.

“I have very thick skin. I do what I want. I can handle criticism; it doesn’t move my needle. It hurts my feelings, I guess—or it used to. But it doesn’t change my actions.”

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