Leigh-Anne Pinnock Says In New Book 'Believe' That Little Mix Was Traumatized When Jesy Nelson Left

Leigh-Anne Pinnock is opening up about the aftermath of Jesy Nelson‘s Little Mix exit in her new book!

The 32-year-old “My Love” singer just released her memoir, “Believe,” and in it, she talks about how the departure affected her and the remaining members of the group, Perrie Edwards and Jade Thirlwall.

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“It was a complex and painful thing to come to terms with. We all felt it, that pain and sadness. The whole thing felt like a weird break-up, and I wasn’t prepared for it,” Leigh-Anne wrote of Jesy leaving the group.

“I wasn’t prepared for the intensity of those emotions. The whole thing was abrupt and sad and then it was messy, which made it even more painful.”

She also added that after Jesy started her solo career, Leigh-Anne found the comments on social media to be “truly awful,” and even if she tried to avoid them by not going on social media, she still had underlying anxiety.

In her book, Leigh-Anne shared how the girls had all become family and they found Jesy‘s exit traumatizing and they had to all go to therapy after.

“I’ve been to therapy during the course of my career. When we decided to pause Little Mix, I felt compelled to go back. We all did,” she shared.

“We were a family, the four of us were like sisters, and we had been that way since we were teenagers, so it’s not an over-exaggeration to say that losing a member was a traumatic experience,” she added. “When you have felt so much love and support with another person over such a long time and then that suddenly disappears you never fully get to understand why, it hurts.”

“Therapy helped me, helped all of us, process what had happened and manage the emotions that came with it,” Leigh-Anne said. “All of that messiness is now so far behind me that it’s not even worth commenting on. We have moved forwards into something even brighter and stronger.”

Leigh-Anne Pinnock‘s new memoir “Believe” is out now and you can purchase the Kindle edition on Amazon!

ICYMI: Earlier this year, Jesy revealed when was the last time she talked to the Little Mix ladies…

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