Diamond White Breaks Down the Pain Behind “Daddy Issues”: “It Was Almost Like Writing A Goodbye Letter”

Every so often, an artist releases a song so raw it feels like a bruise you didn’t know you still had. Diamond White’s latest single, “Daddy Issues,” is just that. A guttural, melodic ache that wraps around you slowly and holds on tight. It’s not just music. It’s a confession. It’s grief. It’s a letter that never got mailed. It’s a tear that never fell until now.

Diamond, best known for her powerhouse vocals and electric screen presence, strips it all away on “Daddy Issues.” What remains is the trembling voice of a little girl who learned far too young how to hold herself together in a house where the door never opened for her father. And when we sat down to talk, what unraveled was more than a press cycle. It was a reckoning.

“I Thought I Was Bulletproof”: Grief, Granddad Joe, and That First Real Cry

When Diamond sings “I thought I was bulletproof,” it doesn’t land like a metaphor. It lands like truth. The kind of truth you only discover when the person who held you together is no longer there to do so.

“The moment I realized I wasn’t bulletproof was when my grandad, Joe, on my dad’s side, died,” she tells me, her voice catching in a hush that only grief knows. “When I was young, he stepped into my life even though my dad didn’t want to be in it. He told me if I cried another day over him, he wouldn’t see me ever again. So I stopped crying.”

Let that sink in. A little girl was told to bury her pain so deeply that it never had a chance to breathe. So she armored up. She dried her tears. She kept moving.

“The day Granddad Joe died,” she continues, “I cried so hard. I think it was a combination of finally letting out all those years of wanting to cry over my dad, and the fact that the one person who took his place was gone.”

That cry, years in the making, wasn’t just for Joe. It was for the little girl who never got to be one.

“I Don’t Talk to People at All”: The Vow That Built a Wall

In “Daddy Issues,” there’s a line that cuts deep: “I don’t talk to people at all, not anymore.” When I ask where that came from, her answer is immediate.

“It was just my granddad telling me to stop crying,” she says. “That made me retreat inward. I made a promise.”

Imagine that. A promise to silence yourself just to keep love close. And in that silence, a songwriter was born.

“Songwriting has definitely helped me heal,” she says with the faintest smile. “Telling my truth is how I started to come back out. I wrote this song in 2018, and I’m so happy it’s finally out.”

The song was waiting for her to be ready. And now she is.

Releasing the Shame That Was Never Hers

Growing up without a father isn’t just an absence. It’s an echo. It reverberates in your relationships, your insecurities, your ability to trust. But shame? Diamond never held that.

“I don’t believe I ever felt his absence as shame,” she says plainly. “I felt his absence was just a detrimental decision because I ended up being a really cool daughter.”

She chuckles softly at that. A moment of levity earned after so many years of heaviness.

“I’m very proud of who I became without him. And I owe a lot of that to my amazing mom.”

This is the part of the story people don’t talk about enough. Not just the hurt but the healing. Not just the loss but the way you bloom anyway. Because “Daddy Issues” isn’t a song for pity. It’s a song for survival.

A Soundtrack for the Fatherless

“Daddy Issues” is more than a single. It’s a balm for the broken-hearted. For the girls who waited by the window. For the boys who learned to tie their own ties. For the kids who grew up and turned their pain into poetry.

And for Diamond White, it’s an arrival. Not just as a musician or actress. But as a woman no longer afraid to speak on what she was once told to swallow.

“I held it in for a long time,” she says. “But this song? This is me letting go.”

Let it go, sis. We hear you. And for those of us who’ve been carrying the same weight? We’re letting it go, too.

Stream “Daddy Issues” by Diamond White on all major platforms now. And if you need to cry after listening? You’re not alone.