Edele Lynch has made no secret of the fact that she struggled financially after B*Witched was dropped from their record label.
The band enjoyed four years of solid girl power energy, but in 2001, they were informed that their record label, Sony, had dropped them, and the following year, they parted ways.
Mum-of-three Edele previously spoke of how she took on an admin job ‘to pay the bills’ and support her children. Now, she recalls one moment that sticks out in her mind when she was knee-deep in her financial woes.
Pic: Edele Lynch/Instagram
‘Sinéad and I struggled, very much so, because everything plummeted,’ Edele said, speaking to the Irish Independent. ‘I remember putting my mortgage on my credit card at one point. It’s nerve-wracking.
‘You’re in a band, and you’re No 1 and all that stuff, and then somewhere along the line, years later, you start to struggle.’
Elsewhere, her twin sister, Keavy, admitted that she felt ‘lost’ and ‘didn’t do much’.
Edele Lynch and Keavy Lynch of B*Witched. Pic: Instagram
‘I had money to pay the bills, but even though I had money to pay the bills, I went in the red and in the red, and they were chasing me. I was like: “I haven’t got the capacity to pick up the phone and pay my bill”,’ she remembered.
After B*Witched split, Keavy suffered from depression and admitted she contemplated suicide. She is now a patron of mental health charity Stand Down, which offers counselling to those who suffer mental trauma as a result of military service.
Keavy said counselling ‘basically saved me’, and now, as a trained counsellor, she wants to return the favour.
Sinéad O’Carroll, Keavy Lynch, Edele Lynch, and Lindsay Armaou of B*Witched. Pic: Robin Platzer/Twin Images/Getty Images
The women recall feeling ‘jaded’ after sometimes working 17-hour days as part of B*witched.
Lindsay Armaou said it was an ‘exhausting’ time in their lives, and when she looks back at photos from those days, it’s written all over their faces.
‘We’re gaunt. We have dark circles under our eyes. We’re thin. We’re really, really tired,’ she told the publication. Edele threw in that they ‘had a bloody great time’ though, and perhaps, they wouldn’t have had the success without grafting as hard as they did.