Singer-songwriter Sia has disclosed that she is "on the spectrum" and in "recovery mode" two years after her film "Music" sparked criticism for inaccurately portraying persons with autism. The Australian singer received criticism for casting Maddie Ziegler, a regular acting partner, as a nonverbal autistic adolescent in her feature directorial debut "Music" in 2021. Sia claimed recently on an edition of Rob Has a Podcast that it has only been the past two years that she has been able to find herself. "I have autism, I'm in recovery, and anything else. I've been saying, "I've got to go put my human suit on," for 45 years. And I've just really, truly become myself in the last two years," the "Chandelier" singer stated.
Furthermore, she asserted that no one could "love you when you're filled with secrets and living in shame." Then, according to her, "We finally sit in a room full of strangers and tell them our deepest, darkest, most shameful secrets, and everyone laughs along with us, and for the first time in our lives, we don't feel like pieces of trash, and we feel seen for who we actually are, and then we can start going out into the world and just operating as humans and human beings with hearts and not pretending to be anything."
"Music" followed Kate Hudson's character Zu, a recently sober lady who takes on the role of guardian for her half-sister Music (Ziegler), a teenage girl with autism. When the issue first erupted, Sia responded to her detractors by claiming that the plot was based on a "neuro-atypical friend" of hers who "found being nonverbal to be too stressful, and I made this movie with nothing but love for him and his mother." Later, she apologized and promised that the problematic sequences from "Music" would not be shown again.
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