ALISON Moyet has revealed she smashed up her gold discs and burned her diaries to protect her children when she dies.
The Invisible and Love Resurrection star also took her computer to a shop and had all her contacts, songs, demos, and even photos of her children wiped on three separate occasions.
She said: “When I moved to Brighton we decided to downsize and that’s when I burned all of my kind of personal possessions. I burned my diaries, my gold discs, everything.
“I smashed them all up. I got rid of everything.
“I wanted to travel lighter.”
Moyet, who has sold 23 million albums, said she also did it because she was trying to save her children the task of one day going through her belongings when she passes away.
The pop favourite has three grown-up children – a son from her first marriage to Malcolm Lee, a daughter with former partner Kim McCarthy and another daughter from her current marriage to David Ballard.
She said: “I also thought when you lose your kind of parents…the idea of going through their things and having to decide what you’re going to keep and what you’re going to have to offload when this was their life that they’d collated. And I didn’t want that for my kids.
“I don’t think having a singer for a mother should be a massive memory for them.”
Explaining the deletion of her computer records was more to do with her ADHD, she said: “I feel so oppressed about the tasks I’ve not completed. I’ll have like 30,000 emails unopened. I’ll have too many photographs, files that I feel bad about not having dealt with.
“I’ve done that about kind of three times.”
Moyet, 64, released her tenth studio album, Key, last year, but she has also gained a degree in fine art printing since turning 60 after struggling with her education in her school days because of her dyslexia.
She told the I’m ADHD! No You’re Not podcast: “University was really good for me because I had a structure, but it also made me really ill because I was so intent on not falling prey to all those things I’d been accused of – the laziness, the lack of focus – that it went the other way.
“I would be up at 6am, I would work til 2am – I didn’t sleep. It drove me batsh*t. And the perfectionism, the complete perfectionism, and then the guilt about not being around for other people. It would literally make me sick.”
Moyet also told how she has an audio book on at home at all times.
The singer has released ten albums to date, beginning with her chart-topping LP Alf in 1984.
She’s won Best Female Solo Artist at the Brits twice and was nominated for a Grammy in 1993 for her track It Won’t Be Long.
