Victoria Monét is opening up a couple of painful expertise she had whereas navigating being pregnant as an unbiased artist. During an emotional interview on iMo with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson, the Grammy-winning singer recalled feeling unsupported by somebody on her personal crew after revealing she was anticipating.

“Yeah, so when I got pregnant, I was an independent artist,” she started. “I was working with this company called Platoon, working out of the UK. And when you’re an artist, though you’re a human, you’re technically the business.”

Monét defined the emotional tightrope she walked—celebrating the blessing of motherhood whereas additionally feeling the necessity to apologize to her enterprise companions. “It was a balance for me of being celebratory about it, but also kind of apologizing to my partners… it was a weird thing for me to try to navigate.”

But what damage her most was a one-on-one Zoom assembly with a crew member who laid out a PowerPoint presentation targeted on the obstacles she’d face as a pregnant artist. “They made a PowerPoint presentation to me about how difficult it will be for me… and the finale of the presentation was, ‘What’s the rush?’” she revealed. “So it felt like an encouragement to get an abortion.”

Although Monét believes the particular person’s intentions weren’t malicious, she left the assembly feeling deeply damage. “I walked out of that meeting with that same fight that I had when I left home, like, I’m gonna… nah, show you right. I’m gonna do this.”

Now, with the success of her hit “On My Mama,” Monét feels a way of divine alignment. “It’s amazing that one of my biggest songs is ‘On My Mama’… it’s so full circle to my intention and purpose for having her.”