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Perrie Edwards on how being a mum DRAMATICALLY changed her
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Aug 22, 2025
Perrie joins us for No Filter where she chats about her upcoming single, her strong relationship with son Axel, and why she's so open about her anxiety and going to therapy. #perrie #perrieedwards #littlemix #music #newmusic Subscribe for regular entertainment! http://bit.ly/1qyfc2T Watch videos in full + exclusives here: https://thisisheart.co/heartglobalplayer Honest Celebrity Interviews: https://thisisheart.co/honestinterviews Music Artists: https://thisisheart.co/3YVm8wN Film and TV Stars: https://thisisheart.co/filmandtv _ We're the UK's biggest commercial radio brand creating memorable moments with the most recognised names in entertainment!
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See, I fell in love with Alex and we made a little human that's just like him and a bit of mane
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It's like, I just adore him. Hey, this is Perry and this is No Filter
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Oh gosh, there's so much to come from the Perry era. It's new, it's fresh, it's improved
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I've got my album, brand new single, if you wanted to, we would. It's all happening now
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I feel like I've been waiting for this moment for a very, very long time
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And it feels a bit surreal even saying, my album's out. It feels a bit bizarre
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but I'm so ready because I know the music is exactly what I wanted it to be it's very perry
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it's self-titled that for a reason it's my sound um it's very autobiographical it's just so true
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to me and I just love it so much so I think I kind of got to the stage where I didn't have like
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my creativity and I didn't have like the juices flowing and it didn't feel like it was feeling
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authentic and I was just feeling pressure from everyone like oh this isn't what I expected oh
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this isn't what we want to do or like deadlines or what we're going to do next and I just felt a bit
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like it was all getting a bit much so then I kind of had my therapy which I do on a Friday
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and I just realized I had a choice and I think that's like a massive thing I've kind of forget
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that there's actually a choice I don't have to do it and like spin it out and do it quick it's all
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on me. So I spoke to my manager and she was like, absolutely take as much time as you need. Like
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it's more important that you feel good and you feel ready and you feel confident in your music
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And that's what I did. As soon as I took the pressure off, my music just felt incredible
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And it felt so me and it felt really genuine and very authentic. And I just was just
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relieved almost. And it just felt amazing. And then I thought, right, this is it. So I got my
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album ready, put the order together, chose my singles, sent it to the label and I was like this is the plan
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I never been one to kind of you know keep the fact that I have therapy and anxiety and panic disorder and all these things I never been one to keep quiet about that because I know so many people suffer So I think the more we talk about it and the more we make it normal
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the more normal it'll start becoming and it'll feel like, yeah, I have therapy on a Friday
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I love that for me. I love therapy and I love a Friday
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So it's like we definitely need to, we're getting better at it
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but we still have a long way to go, I think. So it's important for me to talk about it a lot
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I have a very strong, deep, lovely connection with my fans. They're just like friends, they're like pals
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I think a lot of them I've kind of grown up with. A lot of them might be new, a lot of them might have been around for years and years and years
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And I just think we've got such a good bond and a good connection. And I love being there for my fans and I love kind of being a spokesperson for them
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or kind of talking about things that they kind of go through too and it makes them feel a little bit more reassured
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that I also go through it too, if that makes sense. But yeah, I have the best fans in the world
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If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. So, like, I want them to be as happy as I am with my music
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and I want them to love what I do. And I listen to them a lot. I learn from them a lot
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They definitely shout the loudest, so I definitely hear you. and yeah I think it's just important to me that they're happy as well
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I would just want to say thank you mainly first and foremost because you mean the world to me
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and you're so supportive and you're so understanding and you're so caring and
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you're sweet with each other as well. I just think you're such a lovely fandom so I'm very
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blessed to have you so thank you I think having a child kind of changes you dramatically anyway
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so I think it's definitely impacted my songwriting and it's definitely impacted like my life but I
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would say for the better like don't get me wrong there's times I want to rip my hair out and I think I can do this but then it so rewarding and he so funny and Axel is the most charismatic like confident cheeky chappy he just like his dad and obviously I fell in love with Alex and we made a little human that just like him and a bit of me And it like I just adore him He the best thing ever So I very lucky to be a toddler
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mummy. When they say it takes a village, it takes a village. And you know what? In my case
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it's not even a village. It's a Debs. It takes a Debs. That's my mum, just FYI. And honestly
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me mom does everything for me and I can't do a thing without her. I'm 32 years old and I'm jointed
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at hip and I always have been and I always will be and she is just the queen and I have this career
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and I have all these things and I can go to work and do what I love because she helps me with
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everything so I'm very blessed to have her. Yeah me and Axel are very close, we have a very good
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bond and relationship. We're kind of like best friends as well as mother and son. Like we just
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have a laugh. We're very fun and I think the kind of relationship I had with my mum growing up
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because she was like the fun mum. She would like move all the furniture to one side and we'd do
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cartwheels and like she was always just a bit crazy but in the best way we'd slide down the
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stairs in sleeping bags and it was random but she was a kid at heart and I feel like now having a
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child of my own like I live vicariously through him so it's just so much fun. Axel just loves to
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travel. I got lucky because you know I've taken him I took him on the last little mix tour when
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he was a baby um which was really hard don't get me wrong that was not easy but it was so good and
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now he's at the age where he's just so easy and he loves coming everywhere with me because every
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time I go somewhere and I take Axel and my mum they basically have a holiday so my mum and Axel
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will go like exploring and go to the beach and do fun things and see the place that we're actually
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in and then I'll be at work and I feel so like content and happy knowing that he's having the
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best time and my mum there so yeah I think I got lucky because if he was like I don want to go I want to stay here I don want to do these things then I wouldn be able to do it because he wouldn be happy but he thrives like he I took him to work yesterday he gave Tom Grennan a head massage like he lives his best life every day I want to be Axel
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oh that's so cute yeah Yeah. I actually remember writing this
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It feels like it wasn't that long ago, but was it ages ago? A year ago. This was a year ago
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I wrote a letter to myself a year ago. This is really cute. I should do this in like everyday life
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Maybe to Axel and stuff. So write a letter to future Perry
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I could not tell you what I wrote because I don't remember what I did yesterday
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So this is going to be interesting. Do you want me to read it out loud
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Dear Perry, Just a little note to let you know, dot, dot, dot
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You did it. With the fear, with the pressure, you did it. Yay
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And you had fun doing it. Do you know what? Pass Perry, so true
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I did have fun doing it. I am here, I'm doing it, and it feels amazing
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That was like short and sweet, but really cute. It's kind of what I needed, so love that for past tense, Perry
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Oh my God, I know. Have we got him a little present? No, you didn't
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Oh my gosh! I'm really slacking on Hatchie's Instagram. It's just, I can barely run my own Instagram
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I'm terrible at socials, nevermind Hatchie's as well. And he's pushing on a bit
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He's gone deaf, he's gone blind. He shouts at me when I walk in the room now
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He doesn't, he can't see. It's heartbreaking. He just doesn't really like Axel
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They just kind of do their own thing. They don't like each other that much. He's a bit of like a little gremlin
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and then, actually not Axel. He just stays out of his way, really
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They don't really care. It's pretty chill. We actually celebrate his birthday every year though
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So thank you for that present. Oh, that's so cute. He's gonna love it
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That's so sweet
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