ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Celeb in a Pod - Lewis Capaldi!

Episode Date: May 2, 2023

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley had a chat with the one & only, Lewis Capaldi!Talking all things Mental Health, Chad Kroeger, & Lewis' new Album!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fleshborn and Hayley, celeb in a pod. Thanks to McCafe, great things are brewing, one cup at a time. Hello! Lewis! Hello! Well, his new album is out May 19, he's in New Zealand on the 18th of July. We welcome him back to the show, Lewis Capaldi, good morning. Hello, good morning, good afternoon and good night.

How are you, darling? I'm, um, you I'm just passing, getting by That's a really big question It is We're an open and honest workplace here And we can share our feelings We can do a little session if you want I'll open up to you guys

I'll spread my butt apart, who knows Spread your butt apart? We got straight in there didn't we? We're going to need a proctologist If that's what's got him worried, got him on edge today. How are you? Good. Well, yeah, I'm good.

I'm good. I'm fine. Don't need a proctologist or a session or anything. Absolutely. Creaming along. I'll say, creaming along. I don't know about that. I've had a cup of coffee, and that makes me quite jittery, Lewis.

I'm the same. I get quite anxious after a cup of coffee. Me too. So why did you drink it, Hayley? Well, I know because I actually said to these guys, I actually did a whoopsie doodle dandy and forgot my anxiety medication for three days and I wasn't allowed a coffee and then I ordered a coffee and I've had that and now I'm actually pounding off the walls.

What do you have? You don't have to tell me this. I'm an anti-anxiety medication taker myself. What are you hitting up these days? Let's get into it. Mine's just a classic little citalopram. I don't have to tell me this. I'm an anti-anxiety medication taker myself. What are you hitting up these days? Let's get into it. Mine's just a classic little citalopram. I don't know what the key ingredient is of that. You know, it's just a little.

I don't know what you're talking about. I'm a sertraline boy myself. Zoloft, I believe, the Americans call it. Yeah, beautiful. Yeah, I'm actually weaning off them just now. I'm going to go to Turkey because of the brains apps. Yeah, it was a mistake, Lewis. I've made a terrible mistake.

He joined us on Dr. Hayley and Lewis's discussion of what antipsychotic medications, I believe they're called. I don't know that for sure. I know, I know. But good stuff. Well, keep on taking them. Well, do you know what? This is one of the things I love about you

is how often you talk about it. I'm pretty similar in myself. Nothing to be embarrassed about being medicated for things that absolutely can crush your life. I mean, you're very honest about that. Is that a conscious thing for you that you share that or are you a bit like me and you share everything? I share everything, I think. But for me, I really had to get ahead of it because especially the Sertrain thing because it made me – and I don't know if you're allowed to talk about this

in the morning, this early in the morning on the radio, but I was struggling to achieve climax. I was on a road there that just kept going up and up and up and up and up and it never came down. So I, to the female population out there, to let them know if I happen across you and something happens, it's not your fault, it's all me.

Is that what you call it, happen across you? Yeah. Well, that's the trouble. I'm not happening across anything. Yeah. I did not know. I didn't know that was a possible side effect. So many mental health medications, antidepressants, antipsychotics, anti-otics anti-anxiety anything they're total i was going to use a different term total

killers right of the of the mood yeah so they're mid-hoovers wow have you noticed lewis like since because i watched your documentary which was amazing i just loved it and it was very raw and open as well as being you know about your incredible music which we will talk about with a very deep sort of Dr. Phil. Have you noticed a response from that in terms of your openness about your mental health struggles? Yeah, I think so.

People have been coming up to me and being very kind and very nice. There are some people who are coming up to me and being like, what advice do you have for someone who's going through some mental health problems? And I'm like I am the last person you should be asking

at the moment now not only have panic attacks on the regular I now can't get a stiffy to save my life don't ask me for advice on that one but it's been lovely, people have really it's just, there's just been sort of

this sort of openness with people and I was nervous about it at first because I didn't really, when I set, well I say when I set out to make a documentary when the documentary was presented to me as an idea we were supposed to be going on this big tour and playing these amazing massive shows and living a really cool life

and then it sort of became, obviously COVID happened. There was this pan, anyone tuning in who's three years old, there was a pandemic that happened. Yeah. Yeah. No,

it was, it became quite, it became a lot more about me, my life, my family than I was expecting it to. I was kind of expecting to be a sort of like pat on the back, my life's amazing sort of thing but I'm happy with it. I'm really happy people

now feel that and I guess it gives people this sort of understanding of where I'm coming from like if I like, not that I've ever done this but like if I was to cancel a show just in case the insurance people are not... I won't do that, I won't do that. If I was to cancel a show because I was like having

panic attacks I feel like people would kind of be like a lot more understanding so it's like this because of the documentary because

of they've really seen it firsthand so um because you did you did say at some point you know like the the pressure of fame was almost

so overwhelming that you were like I can't do music like I don't think I'm going to be able to tour or make new music but luckily you there is new music and you're coming to't think i'm going to be able to tour or make new music but luckily you

there is new music and you're coming to visit us i'm going to i'm going to happen across the country of new zealand wow i've got a boyfriend but i mean you can happen across some of my friends the country itself there'll be an individual but i'm going to leave a mark on you all that's what i was hoping no i'm not excited it's going to be great it's been four years no three but you know what new zealand was one of the last places i did a show because i was in january 2020 three years actually since i've been there but i'm excited the shows were incredible so um lewis wasn't our patient zero was he might have coughed her. I don't think so.

Let's talk about the new album because it's out in a couple of weeks. Was it last week you had Chad Kroger from Nickelback on stage? Are there any duets? Any collabs in the new album? Oh no, nothing. No one wanted to but now that I am

I don't know, maybe next time but like just to go back to the Chad Kroger thing mental, right? Do you know what the best thing about him was as well? He was like he came on and was like, Andrew was standing and we were like, we'll do Rockstar we'll do like a version of Chorus of Rockstar and then he got up there and I don't know if he like

had a few like beers or whatever but he was like, as soon as he got up there, hadn't rehearsed this, he was like, let's do another one. And I was like, mental. He loved it. He loved being back in front of the screaming crowd. He was so up for it. He was such a legend.

But no, the album does not have any new, any collabs or anything of that nature. You and Chad and Lizzo should do like a little trio song because lizzo is also a big chad kruger fan as we all are oh unbelievable and actually oh yeah i would love it she can do everything and me and chad will stand side to the stage and just play the guitars yeah you'll do the do-wop do-woody-doos. Yeah, we'll do the thick 30. Like, you know, we'll just do like Do the backup. Do the

Lizzo backup. I would love to hear you and Chad saying thick 30. Yeah, we'll just be we'll be providing support for Lizzo to shine. When you're on Instagram and you've got 6.6 million followers, what is the inbox like?

Do you actually go through and just selectively pick a couple of messages to look at? Delete all it like I do. I haven't done it. I don't tend to scroll through as much as I used to. There's quite a lot in there. I've also had a stray penis or two. Oh!

Yeah, unsolicited. I want to make that clear. But yeah, so you get it. Listen, what I've realised, I don't know if you guys have the same thing, there are a lot of weird people on the internet. Yeah, there really is. There really is.

You're also touring with Noah Cyrus, who we also love, coming to Spark Arena in Auckland in July 18. Have you been a fan of her music? You could do a little collab together if you could be sharing the same stage. I'd imagine we will. I hope so.

That's me being so presumptuous that she would want to. Yeah, I'm a huge fan of Noah's. I think she's incredible. It was one of these things where the opportunity came up to ask her. Because that's the thing with touring. You get like, you can you're allowed to ask this person do you know what i mean it's like a weird reaching out to someone

random it's like through agents and stuff like that it was very thingy but um yeah no i'm a huge fan and i can't wait to have her come on listen also she really helped us shift a few tickets as well so noah i really doubt that you uh struggle to sell tickets everyone loves you do you do you uh request anything in your dressing room like do we need to have any anything there backstage for you oh yeah for your foot spa guy i hate feet don't touch my feet don't like look at them i can't i can't be barefoot anywhere. The answer to that question was, we don't have anything backstage because there's catering. And I've got a problem with indulging.

Yep, we all have a problem to have. Yes, we're all familiar with indulgence. Well, coming to Auckland and Wellington, the 18th and 19th of July. The album is out in a couple of weeks on May 19. Lewis Capaldi, thank you so much. We'll see you in July. Well, thank you, guys.