U.s. musician Alicia Keys was almost destroyed by her ‘relentless’ drive to succeed - and was only saved by her grandmother’s battle with cancer.
The Grammy Award-winning star spent years neglecting her personal life and her family in a desperate attempt to stay on top of the notoriously tough music industry.
But it was only when her paternal grandmother became cripplingly ill with cancer last year that the 27-year-old forced herself to slow down.

Speaking of the troubled time, Keys says, “That’s exactly what it was. That’s why I had to totally, completely stop. I’m used to constantly going on to the next thing, but I realised at that moment, ‘Man, this is it, this is all I have.’”