The singer Sia, whose hallmark on stage is not showing her face and covering it with long bangs, has revealed that she is on the autism spectrum and that she found out about it at an advanced age. At 47, the Australian singer-songwriter, producer, actress, director and writer has assured in her recent appearance on the Rob Has a Podcast podcast that she is autistic but has not revealed exactly when she received this diagnosis.
“I’m on the spectrum, and I’m in recovery and whatever, there’s a lot of things,” he said. The interpreter has shared that she has lately learned to accept herself without apologizing. Sia, whose full name is Sia Furler, has made this revelation two years after being criticized for choosing Maddie Ziegler, who is neurotypical —a neologism used in the autistic community to label people without autism spectrum disorders—, and played a non-verbal autistic girl in his film Music.
At the time of the criticism of her film, the Grammy nominee defended herself on Twitter thus: “My heart has always been in the right place” and urged critics to “see my film before judging it.” “For 45 years, I thought… ‘I have to go put on my human suit,'” he has now said about his life before he was diagnosed with this brain development-related condition that affects the way a person perceives and socialize with other people.
“And only in the last two years have I become completely, completely myself. No one can know and love you when you are full of secrets and living in shame,” he added.
This month the secret wedding of the artist with Dan Bernards in Portofino, Italy has been announced. The Elastic Heart singer walked down the aisle with her partner in an exclusive and luxurious ceremony held at Villa Olivetta by Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. The marriage bond was the most intimate, only four people were witnesses.
The artist married film director Erik Anders in August 2014 at his home in Palm Springs, California, but two years later they announced that they had decided to separate and go their separate ways. Since 2000, when her single Taken for Granted was a huge hit in the UK, the singer has been a success.
