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Fresh off the release of her Heaux Tales EP featuring H.E.R., Ari Lennox, and Anderson .Paak, she virtually sat down with Joe Budden.

Her Source Jazmine Sullivan is back like she never left. Fresh off the release of herHeaux TalesEP featuring H.E.R., Ari Lennox, and Anderson .Paak, she virtually sat down with Joe Budden. The singer explained why she took a hiatus. So I had a horrible relationship that resulted in domestic abuse at the time. Advertisement Sullivans third studio album, Reality Show, was released in 2015 and she planned to take a break after touring for the album. But the break was longer than expected. But I experienced my own point in time where I was kinda just wilding a little bit and I didnt know at the time why I was doing those things. But, you know when I had some time to process Im like Oh I was still healing from that relationship that kinda like threw me for a loop. She added, Some things happened in it that I never thought that I would experience. I let some things happen that I never thought I would, and I kinda became a different person. And sometimes you think youve healed and you havent. And like youre going about your life and situations come up and you start kinda acting out things from the past that you didnt even know were still there. Jazmine Sullivan says that her experience and healing inspired the beautiful body of work that were listening to. After the aftermath of all of that stuff happening, I was just feeling some type of way about myself, and the decisions that I made and feeling like I needed to give myself some grace and realize that I had been through some things. I had some trauma that I wasnt fully healed from and Im okay, I may have done some things that I wasnt proud of or acted certain ways that I wasnt proud of, but Im still good Im still Jazmine, and that doesnt make up the whole of me. Her main objective was to send a message to her female fans who may be in a similar situation. And thats what I want females to know is that, certain parts of your life that may not be cookie cutter, or may not be the best, doesnt make up the sum of you. Give yourself some grace, and give the women around you grace. Read more