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How Halsey’s Life-Threatening Illnesses and Baby Inspired Her to Return to Music · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Halsey's highly anticipated new album, The Great Impersonator arise the
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Speaker 2: next month, and while many artists have released personal and
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Speaker 2: intimate projects, this one is particularly deep, as Halsey's own
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Speaker 2: journey was forcing her to examine life, death, and birth
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Speaker 2: all at once. Not only was she battling multiple life
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Speaker 2: threatening illnesses simultaneously, she was also a new mom. She
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Speaker 2: shared on the Sauce on the Side with Gandhi podcast.
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Speaker 2: I was in that in between space, waiting for answers
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Speaker 2: from doctors for months, wondering not only if I be
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Speaker 2: able to be a musician anymore, but I didn't even
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Speaker 2: know if I'm going to get to be anymore, and
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Speaker 2: that was terrifying. The greatest thing in the world that
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Speaker 2: ever happened to me was having a kid, and then
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Speaker 2: a really scary thing suddenly happened to me. So then
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Speaker 2: I knew I had to start writing music because it
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Speaker 2: would help me process what was going on. The powerful
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Speaker 2: words of Halsey on what led to the new album,
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Speaker 2: The Great Impersonator coming out October twenty fifth.
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