Welsh singer Charlotte Church has revealed that she’s not a millionaire anymore in a shock revelation about her financial status.
Charlotte exploded onto the music scene as a child, performing Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Pie Jesu on ITV’s This Morning at the age of 11 back in 1997.
With six studio albums to her name, 38-year-old Charlotte is one of the classical music’s most successful contemporary artists.
Among Charlotte’s luxurious assets secured at the height of her fame was The Spinney, a six-bedroom rural mansion located in her native Wales.
Boasting a giant garden, a hidden lounge behind a bookcase and a piano room, the mansion is one of the most sought-after properties in Wales.
Sadly for Charlotte, who had spent years trying to renovate The Spinney, she decided to sell the property earlier in the year, making a profit of nearly £1 million (€1.1m).
‘I am not a millionaire anymore. What mattered to me when I bought The Spinney is it was absolutely beautiful and close to the forest and it was a big mansion house.
‘We had a school there for a bit and a studio. When it is used by the community, it makes sense, but when it is not used, it doesn’t. We want to be in the mainframe and be involved in life and what it feels like. I was very fairy-tale-like and then it gets into this dark, twisted fairy tale,’ she told Closer Magazine.
In the interview, Charlotte also revealed that she was downsizing to a semi-detached home. The singer has two children, Ruby Megan, 16, and Dexter Lloyd, 15, with former rugby star, Gavin Henson. She also has a daughter, Frida, 3, with husband Jonathan Powell.
Charlotte added: ‘When I think back on it now, the path I am on is very interesting in the way I reflect rather than the way I look at what happened to me.
‘When I made money, I did say to my dad when I was 14, ‘I am not sure about this showbiz stuff. I am really not having a good time’ and he was like, “Just stick at it as we don’t get these opportunities”.
‘I did get to a stage in my teenage years, about 16 or 17, when I was like, “I don’t know if I can sing this s** t anymore”, but going around the world and singing in the biggest concert halls was phenomenal and I will be grateful for that experience.’
Calling performing for her fans the ‘biggest tool for healing and the biggest tool we have for togetherness’, Charlotte revealed that she’s back making music for the first time in over a decade.
‘Now I am able to do things that I am passionate about. I have this retreat in mid Wales and it is lush. It’s just the way my brain works, thinking about society and thinking about utopian futures and what the world needs.
‘I feel deep at the core of my purpose, it is about healing and it always has been singing classical songs. People felt soothed by that. It is a deep part of my purpose,’ she said.
