Mya has opened up about living a life of celibacy.

The Ghetto Supastar singer revealed that taking herself out of the dating pool for seven years "wasn't even a choice".

Mya, 45, previously shared that her longest stretch of celibacy had been seven years, and recently explained how that time came about.

"It wasn't even a choice. It was just what it was, and then you look up, 'Oh, time has passed,'" Mya told British comedian Judi Love, also 45, on the Judi Love YouTube channel.

"I was fully committed to self and that meant in business and dishing out project after project... engulfing myself into my love and then my gifts that maybe I'd abandoned during that relationship. Changing my diet and then starting to invest in just joy around me and getting rid of the bad energy, the bad vices that could become addictions or any form of escapism."

Having "married herself" in 2013, Mya was primed for a spiritual transformation.

"So it was literally a self-analysation," she explained, "making a chart actually before the New Year, looking at different areas and phases of my life, what I was doing, who was involved, and then what accolades were coming during those times. I'm like, 'Okay, I see progressing,' and then I can see where something was going on because I allowed something in that shouldn't have been there."