Charli XCX has told how she felt her husband was the “first person who really understood me.”
The singer, whose real name is Charlotte Emma Aitchison, told how her husband, George Daniel, inspired the song, I’m Afraid, on her latest album.
“I’m Afraid is a very real song and it’s about George and I’s relationship, but more specifically my relationship with commitment, I suppose, and why I have a history with that,” she said on the Zane Lowe Show.
She added that Daniel, who is a drummer with The 1975, “was the sort of the first person who really understood me so intricately, like my pros and my cons, let’s say.”
She continued, “He just gave me so much confidence in myself because he was able to sort of balance me as a human in our private life, you know? I think I owe so much to him because he has helped really allow me to kind of explore these different sides of myself in a way that, sometimes still feels a bit chaotic, but sometimes actually feels quite safe.”
The 33-year-old added that she “wouldn’t be where I am today without” Daniel, 36.
The couple married in July 2025 in a town hall wedding. They met and started dating in 2022 after working together on a song.
