'I don't think we'll make it': Paloma Faith reveals what led to the relationship breakdown with her partner of nearly a decade

Paloma Faith has shared what led to the end of her relationship with Leyman Lahcine.

The hit singer split from Lahcine, who she shares two daughters with, in 2023 after nearly a decade together.

Speaking on the the Begin Again with Davina McCall podcast, the singer revealed trying to have children "put a strain" on their relationship.

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The Only Love Can Hurt Like This songstress said the couple's issues began when they started going through IVF treatment after struggling to conceive naturally.

The couple welcomed their first child in 2016 and their second in 2021. They reportedly tied the knot in 2017.

"When we first started trying, I had previously become pregnant quite easily and so I was concerned," Faith told host Davina McCall.

She opened up about being irritated over women having to "endure the brunt of the stuff" when it comes to fertility treatment.

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"He was devastated the whole time and said, 'If there's something I can take, or I can do injections. Why does it have to fall on you?"

"But it did, and it does. He was empathetic, but I think that put a strain on our relationship in itself because his view was 'you're so hardworking, breadwinner and all I had to do was this and I can't do it,' she said.

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"It was difficult because I knew I could just conceive naturally and I think that put a strain on us because I'm not someone who buries my feelings."

Faith shared the IVF clinic called afterward and asked if she wanted to try again for another child.

When she brought it up with her partner, she explains she said to him, "I really want another baby, I'm not working as much. I've got more time to relax. Can I do it?"

"He said, 'I don't think we'll make it as a couple,'" she recalled.

"I felt resentment, I just felt alone."

The singer said she was approaching perimenopause at the time and felt she needed to give her child a sibling.

In February, she released her latest album The Glorification of Sadness, which features a track named Divorce.

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