Lisa Marie Presley has removed the "bad people" from her life who were making her "angry, unhappy and disturbed".
The 44-year-old singer - the daughter of the late Elvis Presley and his wife Priscilla - has left Los Angeles to live in England and only felt ready to make a new album after making some other changes to her life.
The mother-of-four told The Sun newspaper: "I just needed a break, a change of scenery. I had to get rid of everything that was around me.
"I felt I was in a draconian web that I had helped spin and I needed to unspin.
"It was only by clearing out the bad people - 'friends', employees, everyone with the exception of my immediate family - that I was inspired to write songs again."
Lisa Marie - who is believed to have quit Scientology earlier this year - believes the "toxic" influences around her had left her "angry, unhappy and disturbed" but she now feels much better about herself.
She added: "I was very angry before. But I didn't know why I was angry because I could not see what was around me, what I was connected to.
"I was surrounded by unbelievably disgusting, despicable and toxic people. I cannot even begin to explain it but it would make an incredible movie.
"I was shadow-boxing. I was angry, unhappy and disturbed, and because my life was being controlled like I was a puppet. I was fighting a lot.
"But getting away, waking up with the bad stuff gone, meant good stuff came up. I began to write again."
The musician has been married to guitarist Michael Lockwood since 2006. She was previously wed to Danny Keough, the late Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage.
Lisa Marie Presley cuts 'bad' people from her life
Lisa Marie Presley has removed the "bad people" from her life who were making her "angry, unhappy and disturbed".
The 44-year-old singer - the daughter of the late Elvis Presley and his wife Priscilla - has left Los Angeles to live in England and only felt ready to make a new album after making some other changes to her life.
The mother-of-four told The Sun newspaper: "I just needed a break, a change of scenery. I had to get rid of everything that was around me.
"I felt I was in a draconian web that I had helped spin and I needed to unspin.
"It was only by clearing out the bad people - 'friends', employees, everyone with the exception of my immediate family - that I was inspired to write songs again."
Lisa Marie - who is believed to have quit Scientology earlier this year - believes the "toxic" influences around her had left her "angry, unhappy and disturbed" but she now feels much better about herself.
She added: "I was very angry before. But I didn't know why I was angry because I could not see what was around me, what I was connected to.
"I was surrounded by unbelievably disgusting, despicable and toxic people. I cannot even begin to explain it but it would make an incredible movie.
"I was shadow-boxing. I was angry, unhappy and disturbed, and because my life was being controlled like I was a puppet. I was fighting a lot.
"But getting away, waking up with the bad stuff gone, meant good stuff came up. I began to write again."
The musician has been married to guitarist Michael Lockwood since 2006. She was previously wed to Danny Keough, the late Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage.
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