In an interview with Hello Beautiful, Chrisette Michele said that Ne-Yo was like a therapist to her when he wrote her hit “Epiphany.” She said, “The epiphany I had [was] when I was hanging out with Ne-Yo. When you hang out with Ne-Yo he talks a lot and he becomes your therapist. And so, you’re on the couch and you’re crying and he’s saying, ‘I knew it!’ Because here you are trying to smile and he apparently knew that you were going through something so he pulls it out of you.” She continued, “I never wanted to sing a brokenhearted love song. I promised I would never sing one, but Ne-Yo pulled that out of me. The epiphany was that I needed to break up with the guy I was with. The new epiphany is, it’s okay to fall in love again.” (Pulse of Radio)
