Kesha is giving fans an update about the collection of human teeth collection she’s amassed over the years.
The pop star brought up the subject during a recent episode of the Las Culturistas podcast with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang.
“Do you know that I collect teeth?” said the 39-year-old near the 59-minute mark in the video linked below. “Send them over.”
“The teeth collection started when I became obsessed with my fans,” she explained. “Then someone told me, ‘My child lost their teeth,’ and I was like, ‘Can I have them? Because I want to make jewelry out of them.’ So I made a necklace, then an earring, then a belt, and then a crown—the crown is wild. After that, I just kept collecting them because it kind of freaks out straight men.”
“I keep it by the door,” she joked. “I started placing them all around my house … in little jars.”
Longtime Kesha fans may remember that the singer first began asking for human teeth through her Twitter account around 2011, only a year after releasing her debut album Animal, which featured popular tracks like “Tik Tok” and “Your Love Is My Drug.”
“I’ve received one tooth from a fan. I made it into a necklace. But now I really want to make a fan tooth necklace to wear to an awards show,” she wrote in a May 2011 tweet.
“So, what I’m getting at is please send me your teeth. I’m dead serious. I need your teeth,” she added in another tweet, later asking fans to send over any spare wisdom teeth they had lying around and even providing a mailing address for people to send their unwanted chompers. In a later update, Kesha claimed she had received 164 teeth.
Kesha, who underwent treatment for an eating disorder at a rehabilitation facility in 2014, continued requesting more teeth from fans.
“Hey guys, this is K’s friend again. She’s doing well and needs more of your teeth to make art with at the treatment center. She misses you :)” read a message shared from Kesha’s Twitter account in January 2014.
However, Kesha’s plan was stopped by the facility, which told TMZ they were unable to “accept human remains.”
“There is always a risk that it could be bio-hazardous material, so we are not able to bring in anything that’s real,” a representative told the outlet at the time.
