(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Christina Aguilera "laughs" in the face of adversity.
The 30-year-old songstress has had a difficult time of late. She split from her ex-husband Jordan Bratman, and their divorce was finalised in April of this year after almost six years of marriage.
The singer's album Bionic was released in June of last year and was met with negative reviews and poor sales. In March, Christina was arrested for public intoxication in West Hollywood, while her new beau Matt Rutler, 25, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence (DUI). She was later released on bail and no charges were filed.
The star prefers to laugh rather than cry about her unfortunate situations.
"Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles. I laugh a lot lately. People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong," she revealed in an interview with the July edition of W magazine.
Christina infamously mixed up her lyrics to The Star-Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl in February. The American singer says she was simply caught up in the moment and has managed to make a joke about her embarrassing performance.
"I got lost in the emotion of being there and I messed up the lyrics to the song," she said. "I went to dinner after the Super Bowl with Matt and I laughed about how I'd made myself into a Trivial Pursuit question: 'In 2011 what female singer flubbed the lyrics to the national anthem?'"
Christina also stumbled on stage during the Grammys. The blonde beauty, who is currently serving as a judge and mentor on US talent show The Voice, performed a tribute to Aretha Franklin alongside Jennifer Hudson, Martina McBride, Yolanda Adams, and Florence Welch. The star was rumoured to be intoxicated on stage, but she is horrified by that speculation.
"I know what everyone was saying," she said. "And during that Grammy moment, when I nearly collapsed, I was thinking, Are you kidding me?' I've always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I could perform in heels. Note to self: never wear a train onstage. My heel got caught in my train, and if it wasn't for Jennifer Hudson, who picked me up as I went down, I would have fallen to the floor. When it happened, it was just like, What else, God?! What else?!' I threw my hands up in the air and started smiling, because what else could go wrong?"
Christina has also opened up about her split from Jordan Bratman, with whom she has young son Max. The songstress says their broken marriage reminded her of "[her] own childhood" and she didn't want to subject her son to that.
"At one time or another we were both not angels. It got to a point where our life at home was reminding me of my own childhood," she explained. "I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home. I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say. That goes against everything I sing on my records. I have to be myself." (C) Cover Media