Halsey Opens Up About Miscarrying During a Concert at 20 Years Old: 'I Ended Up Putting on an Adult Diaper'

Mar. 15, 2025

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Halseyis opening up about a difficult moment.

The “Lucky” singer, 29, appeared on theSHE MDpodcast on Tuesday, Aug. 6, and opened up to co-hosts Mary Alice Haney and Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi about experiencing a miscarriage when they were 20 years old.

“I miscarried during a concert,” Halsey, who uses she/they pronouns, began. “I started miscarrying before the show.”

“And I was in a really tough position because it was really early on in my career and there was a lot attached to the show,” the musician continued. “There was a corporate partner, there was a greater media entity partner, but more importantly than that to me, there [were] a thousand kids who waited all day long to get into this show and see me.”

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“And what ended up happening was I ended up just putting on an adult diaper,” Halsey said. “They’d only asked me to perform I think 45 minutes. And I didn’t really have that much music out, to be honest with you, so I don’t know that I could have played longer.”

Halsey said they went on to do the show and after they left the stage, she threw up in the parking lot.

“I went to a hotel and I was sick all night. I remember sitting in the bathtub because I just didn’t know what to do with all the blood,” she recalled. “And then waking up at 5 or 6 in the morning to get on another airplane to go to Canada.”

The singer said she was bleeding for hours and that it was tough to be on her feet. The concert was also filmed, which Halsey shared was hard to watch back.

“It’s funny because when I look at it now, I see myself just white and sweating, and my voice is different,” she said. “My voice is guttural. I sound and look like a different person.”

“And I just remember feeling like, ‘I don’t know who to talk to about this.’ Because at the time, the only stories about miscarriage that I had heard were from women who were happily married,” they continued.

“And they most of the time would speak about it after they had successfully conceived and carried to term and been like, ‘So this happened before this.’ It was just a world of information that [wasn’t] accessible to me, I just felt so alone.”

The singer went on to say that they had a lot of “complex feelings” after their miscarriage, including feelings of relief, confusion, guilt and grief as they processed what had happened.

source: people.com