Songstress Paloma Faith has revealed that going away to university was exciting, but she really struggled to cope with being away from her loving and supportive family. 

During a new interview with Britain's Cosmopolitan magazine, the beauty admitted that she found being away from home to be harder than anticipated and that was highlighted when she got sick:

"I remember my first year of living away from home really well. I was excited about being independent, but struggled with the reality. One morning in my shared house, I woke up and couldn't see anything. It turned out that I had really bad conjunctivitis."

She went onto add that there's nothing like the loving care of a mother when you're unwell and that was what she really missed: "I'd underestimated how much support 'home' had given me – I couldn't cope. I felt like I just needed my mum."

In September, Faith confessed that she once lied about her age in order to secure a record deal: “When I was asked what my age was in that first meeting, I blurted out 23, when I was actually 27. I didn't plan on doing it beforehand and it wasn't a calculated thing.”

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Watch Faith performing on the David Letterman show here: