NaturallyMoi.com
By Susan Johnes
Posted May 25th 2018
In the early 2000’s, Keri Hilson was among our favorite superstar who released hit jams among them “Knock You Down” and “Pretty Girl Swag,” before disappearing into the music scene.
The hit-making star left people wondering whether she will never come back and drop another fantastic hit. And now from the looks of things, it is apparent that she is readying herself for amazing music.
Keri Hilson has come up explaining what made her take the long self-imposed break. “I had to give up music for a while. I stepped away thinking the break would last one year but it’s been six, maybe. I realize now that I’m grateful for all of those years. I have built myself back up,” she said.
Thankfully, Keri is working on new material, and it seems like 2018 might be the year we hear her first album since 2010’s “In a Perfect World.”
Keri added that her battle with depression also contributed her decision to take a break. She said she believed her mental health issues were triggered by “personal and professional mistakes” and the end of an 11-year relationship.
“When ‘Pretty Girl Rock’ was at the top of the charts, I was bearing the heavy weight of some personal and professional mistakes on my spirit, and I was just not myself,” Hilson said.
“Although I was on the mountain of my life, the trajectory of my dream – I was at the pinnacle, you know? I was severely unhappy and then add to that, this is when I decide to jump out of an eleven-year relationship. Bad decision, bad timing,” Hilson added.
“But it all just spiraled for me and became something I had never been through. I had never recognized myself as a person who can’t pick themselves back up. I was literally on stage crying.”
Keri also added that media headlines had an intense negative impact on her because of ‘attacks on her character.’
“When we are a little low, there is a protection mode that has to happen because we don’t know how much our subconscious is soaking in the criticism and the praise,” she said.
“For more than two and a half years, I went ghost from social media. I don’t need a false love or the unwarranted hate, so I just left,” she confessed.