Jade Thirlwall holds back tears on stage after Jesy Nelson’s Little Mix revelations

Jade Thirlwall was on the verge of tears as she performed her song about ex-bandmate Jesy Nelson, days after her docuseries.

Jesy, 34, spoke for the first time about the pressures she felt while in Little Mix and the huge rift that has formed between the women since she left.

Her mum, Jan, accused Jade, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Perrie Edwards of ‘not being there’ for Jesy in her moment of need.

While performing on her That’s Showbiz Baby! tour in Pittsburgh, Jade’s voice became shaky as she struggled through the final lines of Natural at Disaster.

She put her hand on her heart as the crowd rallied around her during the song, which is said to be about her former bandmate.

‘It’s hard to love you when you hate yourself/ Can’t be there for you without negatively impacting my mental health,’ she softly sang.

Jade has not explicitly said the song is penned about the Boyz singer, but it discusses the topics of mental health and ‘burnt bridges’.

In November 2020, it was announced that Jesy would be taking a break from the band, then months later, she confirmed she did not plan to return.

She claimed in her docuseries that she ‘felt like no one cared’ despite calling the other three women ‘sisters’.

This sadly led to Jesy attempting to take her own life after sitting down and telling the band how she was feeling.

‘I just felt like no-one cared… And I remember one of their responses being like “are you done now, is that it?”‘ she claimed in the documentary.

In the years since the split, Jesy has not spoken to her bandmates and even gone so far as to unfollow the trio on social media.

After being embroiled in a blackfishing scandal, she was criticised for appearing in a video with Nicki Minaj, who appeared to call Leigh-Anne a ‘f**king clown’ as Jesy laughed in the background.

As Jesy struggled with her mental health, her former bandmates were left feeling hurt as a lawyer informed them of her exit, which she explained in the docuseries.

The trio were happy to speak to Jesy about it, but wanted a ‘therapist’ in the room, with Perrie previously acknowledging the fallout felt like a ‘dagger to the heart’.

‘We talk about it a lot, but I think in the moment we did everything we could, so some things just happen,’ Perrie previously told Alison Hammond.

She spoke candidly when admitting she ‘grieved’ the loss of Jesy, adding: ‘It is really sad; we haven’t spoken since she left.’

On Ferne Cotton’s podcast, she shared: ‘When you’ve been in that person’s life for many years and you’ve been through highs and lows, everything, all these experiences. And then poof, they’re gone…I struggled a lot with that.

‘It’s really sad but sometimes these things happen. It’s a really horrible dynamic but you can’t force someone to be friends with you.’

On The Louis Theroux podcast, Jade shared she is ‘still getting over’ the ‘traumatic experience’.

Since the news of Jesy’s newborn twins suffering from SMA, it’s been reported that all the girls reached out to her.

In the docuseries, she shared that ‘it needs to be put to bed now’ and that with time away, they’ve been able to heal.

‘Things happen in life. It doesn’t always go how you think it’s going to,’ she said on This Morning. ‘But I think, three of us are mums now, we’ve all had time to heal, it’s been nearly six years, and it’s just one of those things that takes time.’

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