Big Sean Opens Up About Miscarriage with Jhené Aiko and Shares How He Dealt with His Grief: 'Don't Let it Consume You'

Big Sean is opening up about experiencing a miscarriage.

The rapper – born Sean Michael Leonard Anderson – appeared on the Jan. 17 episode of On Purpose with Jay Shetty to talk about his debut book Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace and his own personal battles.

Big Sean, who experienced a miscarriage with partner Jhené Aiko, was asked by host Jay Shetty to share what helped him through the difficult experience.

He noted that "every situation is different."

The musician, 36, said, "So to someone who is experiencing miscarriages, and I can only speak from a man's perspective, I can't speak for a woman, their perspective is the most traumatic, but I can say that, first of all, you're worthy. I don't want you to think you're not worthy."

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He continued, "I don't want people to think that because they have a miscarriage that they're inadequate or that they're broken. I think that this life is complex, and there are things we do and don't understand, and I think there's beauty in everything that's meant for you."

Shetty also encouraged people to try not to "control exactly how you want your life to be" and, instead, "accept that it is going to be the life that is meant for you."

"You may get blessed with a child later on. You may get blessed with a child that comes into your life a different way," Big Sean said. "Sometimes we get so set on a goal, we don't keep the rest of our doors open, of how the universe could bless us in that way, to not only fill that void, but even make it even greater."

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"So I just want to keep an open mind," he said, "but to anyone who does experience such an insufferable loss: Go through it, express yourself, deal with that grief, but don't let it consume you."

Big Sean concluded, "Sometimes you got to go through it just to get to it."

The "Beware" singer and Aiko have been linked together since the release of their collaborative album, Twenty88, in 2016.

In November 2022, the couple announced the arrival of their son, Noah Hasani, 2, on Instagram. Aiko is also a mother to her teenage daughter, Namiko Love, whom she shares with singer O'Ryan.

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Big Sean first shared news of their miscarriage in 2020 with the release of his song "Big Reverence," which features the lyric, “we lost the baby.”

His book, which includes a foreword by Shetty and is available now, details the spiritual practices he has adopted to help him through the highs and lows of his anxiety and depression.

The synopsis teases that the five practices – accepting, strategizing, trying, trusting and manifesting – have "given him the skills and confidence to become the beloved father, musician, and man that he is today."

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