Brandy has opened up about a particularly dark period of her life, revealing that her daughter saved her during a time she contemplated suicide.

In a new interview with People, Brandy said that after she was involved in a fatal car accident in 2006, she was overcome with some serious depression.

"I remember laying in bed super depressed,” she explained. “I [told] myself, 'So, you’re just going to go out like this? That’s wack. You have a daughter. If you can’t do it for yourself, do it for her because this is not the way to leave a mark in her life.’

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She didn't discuss the specifics regarding the car accident, which took the life of a 38-year-old woman. The combination of the crash and multiple relationships ending left her in a dark place. "If Sy'rai wasn’t here, I wouldn't be either," she said of her daughter, who turned 18 in June. "The place that I was in, it just felt like I wasn't going to make it through." 

Brandy's comeback album B7 arrived last month after an eight-year hiatus from releasing new material. In the interview, she also spoke about why she was gone for so long. “I was a little bit lost eight years ago musically, creatively, spiritually,” Brandy continued. “I had to pull myself together, I had to pull it all together and make it all make sense."