Brandy: ‘If it wasn’t for my daughter, I wouldn’t be here’

hollywood.com:

Brandy has credited her daughter Sy’rai for saving her life during a bout of depression.The R&B star, who recently released new album B7 after an eight-year musical break, told People she was previously “lost musically, creatively, spiritually” and “had to pull it all together and make it all make sense.”Issues in her personal life began after she burst onto the music scene at the age of 15 with her self-titled debut album in 1994, launched her popular coming-of-age show, Moesha, that ran for six seasons, and became the first black woman to play Cinderella onscreen in ABC’s 1997 TV musical.However, as she matured, Brandy began to feel trapped by her “perfect” public image and, after welcoming her daughter with then-partner, producer Robert.