Legendary songwriter Marianne Faithfull has revealed that her serious battle with COVID-19 has left her without the ability to sing.
In an interview with The Guardian, Marianne Faithfull opened up about her 22-day hospital stay back in April and the possibility of her singing voice never returning.
“I may not be able to sing ever again,” she said.
“Maybe that’s over. I would be incredibly upset if that was the case, but, on the other hand, I am 74. I don’t feel cursed and I don’t feel invincible. I just feel fucking human. But what I do believe in — which gives me hope — I do believe in miracles.”
Marianne Faithfull went on to explain that other permanent effects from her battle with COVID-19 have included short-term memory loss and fatigue.
“It’s wild, the things I forget, short-term,” she said.
“I remember the distant past very well, it’s recent things I can’t remember. And that’s ghastly. Awful. You wouldn’t believe how awful it is.”
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Faithfull also reported that she remembered little from her hospital stay, but knew she was in a “very dark place.”
“All I know is that I was in a very dark place – presumably, it was death,” she said.
“You know, the doctor, this really nice National Health doctor, she came to see me and she told me that she didn’t think my lungs would ever recover. And where I finally ended up is: ‘okay, maybe they won’t, but maybe, by a miracle, they will,'” she continued.
“I don’t know why I believe in miracles. I just do. Maybe I have to, the journey I’ve been on, the things that I’ve put myself through, that I’ve got through so far and I’m okay.”
Faithfull is set to release She Walks in Beauty in April, a set of Romantic-era poems recited over music written by collaborated Warren Ellis.
Faithfull said that she had wanted to make the record for “a long time”, but that it is “perfect for what we’re all [currently] going through”.
“It’s the most perfect thing for this moment in our lives. […] I found it very comforting and very kind of beautiful. Now when I read [the poems], I see eternity — they’re like a river or a mountain; they’re beautiful and comforting,” she said.
Check out ‘The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan’ by Marianne Faithfull:
