LeAnn Rimes has opened up about her new release, Spitfire, saying that she faces recent controversies head-on. In an interview with the New York Times, Rimes acknowledges that she's been under the microscope lately and has channeled the pressure onto the album.
"Someone said to me yesterday that this album is like taking a knife and stabbing myself in public. And it's true — I'm letting everyone watch while I rip my guts out. There was not an ounce of me left to put on this record. It was the most fearless I've ever been, in anything that I've ever done," she told the Times.
On the new album, which hit June 4, LeAnn says she was able to give her perspective on the events in her life over the past few years:
"After people have written my life for me for the last four and a half years — and it doesn't matter whether it's true or not, it's what sells the most magazines that week — this was the first time I could dig into my emotions and write from this perspective, and not have to apologize for being human. A lot of people don't see me as that, and haven't for a long time."
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