Idina Menzel is opening up about her divorce from Taye Diggs, and revealing how the painful split helped inspire her new album.<\/p>\n
Menzel, 45, who recently announced her engagement to actor Aaron Lohr, sat down with PEOPLE Now, and got candid about the influence her breakup had on her first original studio album in 8 years, Idina<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cYou learn to try to not be so hard on yourself,\u201d she said of what the split has taught her. Diggs and Menzel separated in 2013 after 10 years of marriage.<\/p>\n Specifically, Menzel said she learned to forgive herself for putting her son, Walker Nathaniel Diggs, now 7, through the divorce.<\/p>\n \u201cYou have a lot of regret with a child, feeling like you\u2019re failing them in some way and not giving them the idealistic scenario,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n The song \u201cPerfect Story\u201d from the new album was written about those feelings, and Menzel said the song is still emotional for her to perform.<\/p>\n \u201cI sang it for the first time onstage last night, in front of an audience,\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to start crying.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Idina Menzel is opening up about her divorce from Taye Diggs, and revealing how the painful split helped inspire her new album. Menzel, 45, who recently announced her engagement to actor Aaron Lohr, sat down with PEOPLE Now, and got candid about the influence her breakup had on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","tag-47"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Srnq-bw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}