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Joy Crookes dealt with toxic relationships and a Harry Styles tour that never happened. Now, she’s poised to finally get her moment

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The London-born Irish-Bangladeshi soul singer is back with a new single, ‘Painkiller’, inspired by an abusive relationship that almost destroyed her. She opens up to Roisin O’Connor about her wild summer, working on her hugely anticipated third album, and why she’s over ‘therapy-speak’