Speaking on the Ellen show to promote her new single Alive, Sia, 39, says she hates people taking pictures of her while she’s out.
“Well it’s just so that I can go to Target and buy a hose if I want to,” she explained.
“Or if I find I’m in need of a restroom, I can go in the side of the road, no one would be following me with a camera trying to get a shot.”
Ellen, a friend of the singer, admitted that she had in fact seen her face in private and encouraged her to shed her wig to show others her beauty.
“You’re beautiful,” she said, before urging the star to remove the eccentric hairpiece.
“Are you going to do it?’ the chat show veteran asked to the delight of the studio audience.
Coyly shrugging her shoulders, Sia replied: “I’ll do it, I’m just working up to it, you know.”
Sia has made a conscious effort to shun the limelight since shooting to stardom, appearing at a string of music industry events with her face entirely concealed.
Asked why she chooses to run from the spotlight, she told Sunrise‘s Samantha Armytage: “Because it’s ugly, it makes me feel hunted”.
Sia – her last name is Furler – told The Australian in 2014 that she doesn’t want to show her face in public any more unless it’s for “dogs and queers” — the two causes she supports.
Americans, it seems, have embraced her unique brand of celebrity kookiness. She’s sung for Barack Obama and at Jennifer Aniston’s recent wedding, and is in more demand than ever as a songwriter – Rihanna, Britney Spears, Beyonce and David Guetta are just a few heavyweights to call on her hit-making skills.
She is more successful than ever, so you’d think she would want to be more visible than ever. But no.
After getting sober nearly five years ago, Sia realised she didn’t enjoy any facet of fame after all.
“I thought that, being famous, I would be cool, different. It’s not what happened.”
