Sia built one of pop’s most recognizable images, an oversized platinum wig, not as a marketing stunt but as a way to disappear from fame she found unbearable. This episode unpacks the trauma, career accidents and controversies behind the artist beneath the avatar.

We follow her from an Adelaide childhood and devastating loss in London to global hits and the paradox of a shield that made her more famous.

• The death of her boyfriend en route to London and the years of grief and substance abuse that followed
• Breathe Me on the Six Feet Under finale changing her trajectory in the US
• A Graves’ disease diagnosis, a suicide note and her pivot to behind-the-scenes songwriting
• David Guetta releasing her Titanium demo vocal without telling her, and the creation of the wig
• Her eccentric private generosity, the Music film backlash, and her later autism diagnosis