Jessie J has shared a personal reflection on her challenging 2025, which she has described as “one of the hardest but most magical years”.
The singer announced in June that she had been diagnosed with early breast cancer and shortly afterwards she successfully underwent surgery. In August, she was forced to cancel a string of UK, European and North American tour dates as she was scheduled to undergo a second surgery.
Yesterday (December 30), she posted on her Instagram Stories, writing: “This is an honest story post that will get blown up I’m sure. But who cares.”
“As truthfully in a world full of ‘everything is fine, I’m happy, I’m good, life is perfect’ there is grief hurt pain sadness heartbreak and reflection and processing happening this time of year for many of us, along side the good and great or on its own,” she continued.
“This year has been heavy and hard in many ways for all of us, for me personally one of the hardest but most magical years of my life. Personally and professionally. But all the sadness has come up this week, it’s the first time I’ve stopped (working and being in public in months) So I’m crying a lot. Writing shit down feeling really low tbh. The lowest I have felt in a while.”
She added that she was experiencing an “accumulation of stuff just making its way to the surface” and that she was choosing to “let it out.”
“Don’t hold it in people,” she said. “We are not superhuman or meant to be happy and positive all the time. It’s healthy and normal to cry.”
She concluded: “Sending love to anyone feeling this way too right now. No positive end to this. Just I’m with ya. It’s shit sometimes.”
In September, Jessie made an emotional return to the stage alongside her two-year-old son at BBC Radio 2 in the Park, just 11 weeks after undergoing surgery. “I’m still very much in the recovery process,” she said at the time. “But I’m just so grateful to be here.”
Her sixth studio album ‘Don’t Tease Me With A Good Time’ was released in November, including the singles ‘No Secrets’, ‘Living My Best Life’, ‘H.A.P.P.Y.’ and ‘I’l Never Know Why’.
In 2026, she is set to play at Victorious Festival in Portsmouth, and will join Lily Allen and Scissor Sisters at the Mighty Hoopla in London in May.
More pressingly, she will round out 2025 by performing on Jools Holland’s Hootenanny on BBC Two tonight (December 31). Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, Olivia Dean, Lulu, Craig David, Heather Small, The Kooks, Imelda May, Joe Webb, David Hermlin and Ruby Turner are also playing.
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