Singer Joss Stone irritated TV viewers when she revealed her tips for happiness.
The multi-millionaire was speaking from the Bahamas about how to find satisfaction.
“I’ve noticed that we have a lot of opportunity to be happy and we don’t always take it,” the 33-year-old told Good Morning Britain.
Asked about the secret to happiness amid current health and financial fears, she replied: “I would say choice … Every person I’ve spoken to, so far, (on her A Cuppa Happy podcast) has flagged that we have choice.
What can you do right now to make you feel happy?@JossStone says having choices in life is the key to happiness.
Her new podcast 'A Cuppa Happy' attempts to find out what happiness is and how to appreciate it.
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— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) August 13, 2020
“And I don’t think everybody truly feels that way. I think some people genuinely feel that they don’t have it. And that is a total myth.”
Stone added: “If we can accept that we do have choice in mostly every direction unless we’re enslaved … or in prison … Mentally we have little choices that we make as we walk along in this life.
“And that is for every single person. That’s comforting. It’s a nice thought and very freeing.”
The singer told presenters she had used the furlough scheme for her staff after her gigs were postponed.
If you have the financial capacity to be in the Bahamas that will be a good start. Being in a block of flats with kids and having no money and no job may erode that happiness
— Steve Wood (@wood_steve54) August 13, 2020
“It’s a little bit of a difficult situation but luckily the UK has the furlough scheme so that was great,” she said.
“But that doesn’t work for people that aren’t employed by you all the time, so that worked for people that are always in my employ.
“But my band members, that’s different for them, they’ve lost all that work. So I heard recently that Boris (Johnson) did something, he gave loads of money to the arts in the UK, something huge for the arts!
“I heard that and I was like ‘Oh my God, another little gem that’s happened to our little nation. We’re so bloody lucky!” she said, after also praising the NHS.
The Government last month announced a £1.57 billion support package to “protect” the future of Britain’s museums, galleries and theatres.
But funds are not due to be released to organisations until October.
Viewers criticised Stone’s comments.
@JossStone You do realise that the £1.5mil for the arts won’t reach any of the workers. Take a look at #WeMakeEvents campaign. The furlough is ending and there’s 600,000 jobs at risk.
— Touring noise boy (@Digisound) August 13, 2020
Dave James Martin wrote: “Me and 1000s of others are being made redundant and she’s banging on about choice and being happy!”
Another wrote: “‘We’ have loads of choice Joss because both you and I are financially stable.
“If you are not quite so lucky the choice tends to be foodbank or the bins behind Aldi… It’s not that easy to be happy when you cannot even afford to eat – I know – I’ve been there.”