Craig David’s has given an update on his dating detox, confirming his celibacy streak has now stretched out for over two years – and he’s reaping the creative benefits.
The smooth crooner, best known for hits like 7 Days, Fill Me In and Rendezvous and who will be heading out a big UK tour next year, is famously private about his dating life and has never shared a relationship publicly.
Throughout his younger years, Craig, 43, mostly pursued short-term romances that lacked deep and meaningful substance and last year said he was refraining from sex in order to ‘heal’ his own problems as he hoped for more fulfilling relationships.
‘I realised that me not having healed my own issues meant I was never in a position to be open to someone else. So I realised I had to pull back from all of this and this has been the past couple of years really,’ he explained to Louis Theroux on the filmmaker’s podcast last June.
‘Which does mean not outwardly going on dates, the sexual interactions are going to have to stop now, just cut that off.’
At the time he confirmed that meant he had been celibate ‘for quite a while now’ and ‘maybe a year or so’.
Delving into the topic again on Friday though, the chart-topper revealed that he had now been celibate for two years.
‘I just felt that I was in phase in my life where I’ve enjoyed the rock and roll part of it and not being grounded and not locking in,’ he explained during an appearance on the TMZ podcast.
Giving an update on why he was continuing to go without sex, he added: ‘There was no timeframe involved with that, I wasn’t like how long can we do this for? Or is it you’re going to be celibate before marriage? It didn’t get a deep as that.
‘Then all of a sudden it just continued on and I was like, man my vibe is so electric right now that I’m just going to wait.’
The musical artist insisted that he hadn’t felt pressure to remain celibate just because he had told people about it and had to ‘live up to it’ now.
He actually revealed his renewed creativity had played a major role in continuing down that path.
‘It has been really good for me because man, the studio music, the creativity, it’s like, no drama just vibes!’ he laughed.
‘I know to the date. It’s been two years now for me [without sex]. But in a funny way, much as I was like ‘Wow!’ to myself for the moment, [my] creativity has been on a 100, on a max, for those two years.’
Craig isn’t sure how long his celibacy may continue, responding ‘Who knows’ as he shared that there was ‘no rhyme or reason for it’ in terms of an end goal or date.
However, he also shared that his decision to abstain from sex had made him ‘more aligned’ and helped improve all relationships in his life as everyone was on the ‘same page’ after confusing and ‘not healthy’ situations in the past.
He also has a sense of humour talking about it, considering his best-known hit.
‘For me to speak on it, it makes me smile because I feel like a lot of people are like, “Yeah, but you’re the 7 Days man! What’s up with that?!”
Last year, Craig gave fans a rare insight into his dating history and revealed how a break-up in his teens left him so ‘pained’ that he closed his heart off to love for 25 years.
The Rise & Fall hitmaker recalled being 15 or 16 when he enjoyed a two-week ‘whirlwind’ romance with a ‘girl who [he] was so into’.
Unfortunately for Craig, their love ‘went south and ultimately we broke up’.
‘My heart just closed down – I didn’t know what I had done wrong. That set the tone for the next 20 or so years,’ he told The Mirror.
‘I’d never be that vulnerable again.’
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