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McLachlan, who canceled a reddish carpet show for her Lilith Fair doc earlier this week retired of evident solidarity with Kimmel, appeared connected Tuesday's (Sept. 23) show.
Sarah McLachlan attends the premiere of "Lilith Fair: Building A Mystery" during the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival astatine Roy Thomson Hall connected September 13, 2025 successful Toronto, Ontario. Mathew Tsang/Getty Images
Sarah McLachlan was the philharmonic impermanent connected Tuesday night’s (Sept. 23) precise peculiar occurrence of Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The late-night speech amusement returned to the airwaves a week aft ABC pulled the plug pursuing disapproval of Kimmel’s comments connected the sidesplitting of blimpish activistic Charlie Kirk from the person of the Federal Communications Commission and Donald Trump.
McLachlan was connected opus arsenic she performed “Better Broken,” the rubric way from the three-time Grammy Award-winning Canadian artist’s archetypal workplace medium successful much than a decade. Seated astatine a expansive soft with melodramatic temper lighting giving the acceptable an ethereal glow, McLachlan sang, “Maybe if I drawback my breath/ Maybe if I hold a little/ I’d retrieve however it hurts/ And halt earlier I fall/ I’d hide to travel apart/ And drawback myself and clasp connected tightly.”
The affectional ballad astir accepting romanticist heartbreak successful which she pledges to “forgive, but not forget,” was transportation cleanable for an affectional evening successful which Kimmel was often adjacent tears during his monologue, successful which helium described his tumultuous week and the fall-out from his Kirk jokes.
McLachlan — who is doing the promo rounds for her arsenic moving ABC News doc Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery — was besides a fitting prime due to the fact that implicit the play the vocalist appeared to marque a motion of solidarity with Kimmel by refusing to execute astatine the doc’s premiere. “I’ve grappled with being present contiguous and astir what to accidental astir the contiguous concern that we are each faced with,” she said successful a connection astatine the premiere. “The stark contraction to the galore advances we’ve made watching the insidious erosion of women’s rights, of trans and queer rights, the muzzling of escaped speech.”
“So blessed that Jimmy Kimmel is backmost connected the aerial and adjacent happier to beryllium performing on Jimmy Kimmel Live TONIGHT!,” McLachlan wrote successful a societal station earlier her appearance.
Due retired Friday, Sept. 19 done Concord Records, Better Broken has been described arsenic “a soul-searching reflection connected the fortitude that comes from weathering life’s changeless storms.”
Primarily recorded astatine the legendary Sound City Studios successful Los Angeles, the Halifax autochthonal enlisted assistance from esteemed musicians including drummer Matt Chamberlain (Bob Dylan, David Bowie) and pedal-steel guitarist Greg Leisz (Kacey Musgraves, Florence + the Machine) and expanded her originative ellipse by collaborating with producers Tony Berg and Will Maclellan, some known for their enactment with the indie popular super-trio boygenius.
Watch McLachlan’s “Better Broken” show below.