Ellie Goulding has opened up about her separation from her husband of 5 years, artwork seller Caspar Jopling.
In 2018, the singer introduced her engagement to Jopling, and the pair was married for a number of years, till they introduced their separation in February 2024.
In matching statements on the time, each emphasised their ongoing friendship and their dedication to co-parenting their son, Arthur, now 4.
The 38-year-old singer is at present pregnant with boyfriend Beau Minniear, whom she publicly confirmed she was relationship in September 2025 after a romantic few months collectively.
Whereas she could have moved on, in promotion of her new album, she has mirrored on her breakup in a brand new interview with NME.
‘I first heard this observe once I had lately separated from my husband,” she stated of her new tune Future. ‘This was at a extremely turbulent time for me as a result of I used to be attempting to navigate what felt like a separation of all separations.’
‘It was a wedding, not only a relationship. I didn’t know what else to do apart from make music.’
She spoke about her ‘grief’ after the break up and the way nobody is ever ‘sturdy sufficient’ to cope with it.
‘Yeah, it doesn’t matter how sturdy a personality you will have, on the subject of separating out of your husband, you’ll be able to by no means be sturdy sufficient for that,’ she shared.
‘It’s like a grieving course of since you’ve misplaced not simply the individual, however the life that was projected for you.’
She added that she channelled her feelings into her new album, which has been a part of her therapeutic course of.
‘It was an extended course of, and it felt actually triumphant to begin waking up within the morning and, little by little, beginning to really feel it much less.
‘It’s by no means gone away, and solely time will inform if it ever will… nevertheless it’s been a means of on a regular basis feeling a bit of bit higher. That to me was such a victory.
‘To have the ability to channel issues like that into poetry and lyrics, after which put it into songs like Future, it simply felt like a triumph. I felt proud that I’d taken these steps to really feel myself once more.’
Goulding’s boyfriend, Minnear, starred in her music video for Future, which was launched earlier this yr.
Jopling is now in a relationship with actress Olivia Wilde.
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