Natalie Imbruglia Opens Up About ADHD and OCD

has revealed she has been diagnosed with and OCD as she recalled going to 'very dark places' in a candid new interview.

The singer, 51, - best known for her smash hit Torn - also opened up about how perimenopause made her 'really angry' while discussing her mental health struggles.

She explained how she was diagnosed with both OCD and ADHD in midlife but doesn't see it as a negative.

Natalie is set to release her sixth album titled Algorithm in September and has several festival appearances this summer - but she says her neurodiversity makes her very nervous before shows.

She said of her various mental health struggles: 'You name it, there's a sprinkle of it. They're just labels. It's not a negative, it's my superpower. 

'But there's a particular thing about my neurodiversity that's hard for me to accept, which is how I get when I'm nervous before a show. Perimenopause made it worse.'

Natalie added to The Sunday Times of her perimenopause struggles: 'Let's just say it was a grieving process. I was really angry. I fell off a cliff. It felt like someone had taken some of my personality.'

She went on to explain that she talked to menopause campaigner Davina McCall about her experiences which helped a lot as she battled 'anger and anxiety'.

Natalie ended up managing her symptoms with HRT creams and said she was glad it is becoming less of a 'shameful or taboo' subject now.

Perimenopause is the transition to menopause when hormone levels decline and symptoms like hot flashes and irregular periods start. 

It comes after last month Natalie furiously hit back at claims she chose solo motherhood over being with a man after welcoming her first child aged 44. 

The hitmaker welcomed her son Max back in 2019 after undergoing with a . 

And in the latest episode of How To Fail with Elizabeth Day, the mother-of-one said she was 'really upset' by the assumptions but her 'biological clock' was ticking and she was forced to be a solo parent. 

She explained: 'I think it's really interesting that people frame it or they did with me that somehow I'd chosen this over being with a man. 

'And for all the men out there, that's absolute rubbish. Like it wasn't some kind of 'I don't need a man or you know women can do this and not have a man in their life.'

'It really upset me... because that was not the case. We just find ourselves in a situation where there's a biological clock and you know a decision needs to be made.

'Thank God for medicine that we're able to have that option because women before us didn't have that option. 

'So yeah, just wanted to say that for the men because it makes me really sad that that's just really not fair on men to say that it was a choice like that.'

Elsewhere in the conversation, Natalie said her IVF experience was 'pretty brutal' as she advised women to make sure they are well informed of the process.