On Friday Faithfull will release her new album She Walks In Beauty with Warren Ellis, and during a new interview with the LA Times, Faithfull has revealed that getting COVID-19 last year has had a lasting impact on her health.

When asked about how the last year has been, Faithfull responded, "I began making my album and then I got COVID, and I nearly died. The damage has been very bad. It’s my lungs, my memory and fatigue. It couldn’t be worse. I don’t know if I will ever be able to sing again. I have singing practice once a week, and I’m doing my best, but it’s very hard."

She added, "I love touring, and it’s breaking my heart that I might possibly not be able to do it again. But I think there are ways around that, like filming. I might be able to do five shows one day: London, Paris, Berlin and two others. But I won’t be able to travel. I’m in Europe and here I’ll stay. That’s OK. I really am European."

Speaking about how she finished her new album after battling COVID, Faithfull said, "Well, I got better. I didn’t know that I was going to get long-term COVID. I thought I was OK enough. And then [producer] Head and I recorded the second half of She Walks in Beauty. You can hear that those pieces are much more vulnerable. The ones I did pre-COVID are stronger. Post-COVID, the one that strikes me is "We’ll Go No More a Roving" [by Lord Byron]. It’s so shaky."