Overview
- In Harper’s Bazaar’s November cover story, Erivo says she has never envisioned reconnecting with her father and states reconciliation is not going to happen.
- She recounts being disowned at 16 and notes she and her sister were raised in Stockwell, London by their mother after her parents left Nigeria during civil war.
- Erivo says the experience put her life in perspective and that she feels happy with the life she has now.
- She previously told The Glossary in 2021 that the break occurred in a London Tube station and drew on it for her song “You’re Not Here.”
- Her comments coincide with promotion for Wicked: For Good, in theaters Nov. 21, and her memoir Simply More, slated for Nov. 18.