Sarah McLachlan Separates From Husband

How very sad.  After 11 years of marriage Sarah McLachlan and her husband Ashwin Sood are calling it quits in a split that she says is "pretty gross."  The couple has two children together.  There's only one good thing that has come of this and that's her new music.

"I'm separating from my husband, so these are the songs about that," she told Billboard.com, referring to her two new tunes, "U Want Me 2" and "Don't Give Up on Us."

She wanted to just get the news out in the open,

"I wasn't planning on saying anything," McLachlan said of the split, "but it's gonna come out at some point. I haven't said anything about it because I've been terrified to, but I figure ... there's no good time to say it, so I just said it."

And Sarah talks about what the songs mean,

She said "U Want Me 2" is "about that really uncertain, confusing place at the end of a relationship when there's no communication or closure, everything's still up in the air and there's a lot of anger and sadness. It's sort of that working through 'How do we move forward ... with some dignity and grace.'"

He's the drummer in her band, so I wonder if they will continue to move forward professionally or if she's already found a replacement.

I hope she has some good friends and family that she can lean on in this hard time.

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