Charlotte Church reveals ‘transformative experience’ taking magic mushrooms as she slams exes for making money off her

CHARLOTTE Church has revealed her “transformative experience” taking magic mushrooms and dabbling in plant medicine.

The opera-singer-turned-retreat-owner and holistic healer, 39, admitted she had a “number of” instances which were “revelatory” during her past.

Charlotte, who can currently be seen starring on BBC One series Celebrity Traitors, spoke candidly about her failure on Elizabeth Day’s iconic How To Fail podcast series.

During the chat, which was recorded in front of a live crowd in Bath, the Crazy Chick songstress let slip her thoughts on her “insane tapestry of experiences” of life.

She spoke of her new era of reconnection with nature and the “psychedelic experiences” which prompted a “deep love” of the world.

Host, journalist and author Elizabeth then delved deeper into this bond and asked her: “I want to hear a bit more about the psychedelic experiences.

“What’s been the most transformative trip you’ve ever been on?

“We’re in Bath. Come on.”

Charlotte then candidly replied: I’ve done plant medicine and I’ve done ayahuasca.

“I’ve had a number of very transformative experiences with ayahuasca and with magic mushrooms, and I think that it’s really incredible what we are learning now from the neuroscience perspective of what psychedelic medicine can do to us and can help us with, particularly in terms of our mental health and also our trauma, the traumas that we are carrying.

“I found my experiences to be revelatory, to be hard.

“There’s a lot of new studies coming out at the moment, which is really looking into areas like psychotherapy and such, but always going into our traumas in a super safe, super held, super comfortable place where in First Nations communities, a lot of this healing and a lot of this trauma work would be done with plant medicines and within a ceremonial, ritualistic context, which often included pain.”

Later in the chat, she told how one of her failures was her “failure to be a wild woman.”

Charlotte told how she craved to “leave tech and have my hands in soil from dawn til dusk.”

PLANT HIGHS

Ayahuasca is classed as a plant-based psychedelic brew consumed in liquid form, usually in tea.

According to the Alcohol and Drug Foundation, ayahuasca is a plant-based psychedelic that affects all the senses, altering a person’s thinking, sense of time and emotions.

Among the indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin, it is used as spiritual medicine. It has also been used for centuries for religious and therapeutic purposes.

The active chemicals in the plant are dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs).

From studies done about the drug, it does not seem to have any negative long-term effects on the body.

LIFE SWITCH

Charlotte’s retreat, named The Dreaming, offers empowering workshops in a luxury manor nestled in the picturesque hills of Wales with 10 acres of lawn, woodland streams and it’s own private beach.

The seven-bedroom mansion has three storeys, a helicopter landing area and a 200-year-old barn located on its 47 acres.

She described the “inspiring wellness project” as “one of the biggest, riskiest and potentially most rewarding challenges” she’s ever faced.

The singer has also been studying neuroscience and mental health in between home-schooling her children, Ruby, 11, and Dexter, 10.

On the company’s website Charlotte said: “I’m very excited to meet the women who come to this retreat.

“I’ve come to a point in my life where I feel a sense of interconnectedness and I’m eager to see how our stories and personal journeys might weave together, and I hope we will all leave the retreat with an open heart and a wider perspective so as to see what we want more clearly.”

RAW REVEAL

During her chat with Elizabeth, she referred to her “deeply wounding” and “shameful” experiences of her exes making money off her.

Charlotte dated Kyle Johnson for 18 months but he went on to sell intimate stories about their sex life.

In 2009, he was jailed after £10million of heroin was found at his home.

She said had had been “betrayed on a very personal level by my first boyfriends, the first men that I had sex.”

The businesswoman then said it was a “deeply wounding shameful thing to happen.”

Charlotte then went on to date ex, Welsh rugby player Gavin Henson.

The couple split in 2010, six weeks after announcing their engagement, but have remained amicable co-parents.

Charlotte and husband Jonathan Powell tied the knot in woodland wedding behind the singer’s house a few months later.

How to Fail with Elizabeth Day is available wherever you get your podcasts.