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For the most part, Rufus Wainwright is doing just fine in these confinement times.
During a Facetime interview Tuesday from his Lauren Canyon home in Los Angeles, the former Montrealer said “it’s going well” for him.
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“We have nothing to complain about,” he said. “We have a lovely house, we’re close to our daughter, Viva, and I’m making a lot of music. And we have our health. So it’s really all about gratitude at the moment. It does get a bit dull occasionally and I’ve lost arguably hundreds of thousands of dollars through lack of touring in the near future, but I have no complaints.”
Wainwright lives with his husband, Jörn Weisbrodt, and they have joint custody of 9-year-old Viva with her mother, Lorca Cohen, Wainwright’s childhood friend and the daughter of Leonard Cohen. She lives nearby.
Wainwright’s latest album, Unfollow the Rules, has been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was meant to be released last Friday and is now only coming out on July 10. That’s mostly because Wainwright cares deeply about the physical version of the record and the vinyl albums are stuck in a warehouse that has been closed down because of the crisis.
