Breast cancer and sexual harassment survivor Sheryl Crow opens up on ‘darkest moments’ of her life.
Sheryl Crow just may be the hard-working woman in show business. The nine-time Grammy-winner and breast cancer survivor just released the candid audio-only memoir Audible Original Sheryl Crow: Words + Music; she has teamed with Hologic’s Genius 3D Mammography to spread awareness about the need for early health screenings; and she recently put out two new timely and topical songs, with more to come.
She may have announced last year that her star-studded 11th studio album, Threads, would be her last, but her career obviously hasn’t slowed down one bit.
“I grew up with albums. I’m not forsaking this beautiful art form,” Crow tells Yahoo Entertainment from her home in Nashville, explaining her new desire to write and release individual songs that are “of the moment, because that’s what we need to hear.”
One of those songs, “In the End,” is “mainly about karma,” Crow says. “I look at the president and I see a complete and total lack of compassion and empathy. And to me, it’s all about modelling — if you’re modelling that to your country, if you’re modelling in your home to your children, what’s the message? So that’s basically what the song is about. I had to write it and get it off my chest.”
Crow reveals that she actually wrote her latest single, “Woman in the White House,” many years ago, inspired by Hillary Clinton’s run — though it’s just as relevant today. “It’s just shocking to me. If we are such a developed country, and we’re one of the richest countries in the world, how it is that historically we’ve never had a woman leading this country?” she laments.
