Late last year, the classical singer was attacked on a busy London street. Here, she talks about the experience for the first time Katherine Jenkins is ready to talk.
She can’t tomorrow, she explains, because it’ll be one of her silent days – the mezzo-soprano doesn’t make a sound for 24 hours ahead of a performance. ‘My kids think it’s a game,’ she says of tallying that professional requirement with being mum to Aaliyah, four, and Xander, who’s almost two. ‘It’s amazing how you can communicate with a child by acting it out.
It’s adults who treat you like you need help.’ We meet before the current crisis has begun, and what Katherine wants to discuss before anything else – before subjects as varied as her new album Cinema Paradiso, her