SHE has never been one to hold back and we can confirm Paloma Faith is more outspoken than ever on her new podcast Mad, Sad & Bad.
But sitting down with Bizarre’s Jack, Paloma proudly boasts she’s got no concerns about being cancelled because she’s always sticking to the right side of history.
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“I’m not worried about being cancelled at all,” Paloma says. “I am pretty cocky about my morals and my ethics.
“I feel like my politics and everything I’ve done is OK. I was raised by a socialist in a multicultural environment, with gay, straight, trans, drag queens, everyone, all around me.”
On the first time she saw a “cross-dresser,” Paloma recalls: “I remember my cousin taking me to a house party when I was about ten and I saw a cross-dressing man for the first time in my life and them explaining to me.
“There is no way I could do anything that could get me cancelled. I have always been on the right side of ethics and morals.”
Paloma adds: “Most people getting called out are straight white men, isn’t it? They deserve it.
“You can’t just go around grabbing people’s bums and dropping drugs in women’s drinks or f***ing shouting homophobic abuse at people and then not expect it to come back on you.”
The first series of Mad, Sad & Bad sees Paloma teaming up with massive female names in the entertainment industry including the brilliant Katherine Ryan and Mel B.
“This first season, I’ve just asked people that I know – my mates – as it’s really hard to cold call people before you have a successful podcast,” Paloma explains.
“I’m lucky that I’ve got contacts and I’ve been nice enough to people along the way in my career that they have said, ‘Yes of course’. It just shows it pays to be kind.
“I only listen back to the ones that I worry about what I’ve said. In the edit I just want to check that I’ve come across as I intended.
“I know it’s easy sometimes for things to be taken out of context. Because it’s my own home, my podcast is very heart on sleeve. I wouldn’t necessarily talk as openly if it was someone I don’t know so well.
“Obviously I’ve been in the industry long enough to know what I’m doing. It’s not rushed. Some episodes are quite emotional.
“It is also entertaining. I’m mucking about a lot as that is what I’m like. It’s light and shade.”
In one episode, Paloma admits she was once caught hooking up with a bloke in an alleyway in Spain, but she never thought twice about cutting it out.
Paloma says: “I’m not ashamed of it so I’d only edit it out if I was embarrassed and I’m not embarrassed about that.
“The only edited stuff is if I think I will be misunderstood, but actually, there hasn’t been much editing as I’m quite lazy.
“After the first ten minutes I go, ‘I can’t be arsed to listen to the rest, I’m sure it’s fine’.”
Away from the podcast, Paloma is back in the studio working on her first album since 2024’s The Glorification of Sadness.
Paloma, who is dating music industry guru and former Shipwrecked star, Stevie Thomas, explains: “It’s not just sad and happy — it’s the bit in between where you are tentatively happy.
“I am pulling in from everywhere. It’s my life experiences, sometimes I have a conversation and I write things down or it’s how I feel that day. Sometimes it can be something I’ve read about that’s really struck me. It’s always been like that.
“I feel like the most structured writing I’ve ever done is the last album as it was only an album about my breakup.
“Every other album I’ve always written about lots of other areas about my life and I’m sort of doing that again. I like the lighter experience at the moment.”
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