Sara Bareilles 'Really Had to Grieve' Unsuccessful IVF Journey and Using 'Egg Donor': 'It Won't Be Mine'

Ilana KaplanFri, June 5, 2026 at 4:00 PM UTC

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Sara Bareilles in New York City in June 2025Credit: John Nacion/Variety via Getty -

Sara Bareilles reveals why she had to "really had to grieve" her unsuccessful IVF journey in her new documentary

"We've been trying for two years," the singer and actress reveals in Good Grief

Good Grief premiered at Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday, June 4

Sara Bareilles revealed that she "really had to grieve" her unsuccessful IVF journey in her new documentary.

On Thursday, June 4, Good Grief, which details the making of the Girls5Eva star's first album in seven years as she grapples with the different types of loss she's suffered, premiered at the Tribeca Festival.

Bareilles, 46, opens up about her fertility journey with her collaborators in the studio and says that she and husband Joe Tippett have been trying to have children for the last two years.

Bareilles then becomes emotional and reveals she's tried IVF "a few times" and it's been unsuccessful.

The "Love Song" hitmaker then becomes emotional as she reveals that using an "egg donor" is the "next phase."

"I really had to grieve that... that it won't be mine," Bareilles admits in the documentary.

But it's gotten her thinking about "the size of love" and that love is "big enough to hold a lot of shapes and sizes and ways things come."

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Joe Tippett and Sara Bareilles in Hollywood, Calif. in February 2026Credit: VALERIE MACON / AFP via Getty

In an interview with Variety on June 4, Bareilles opened up about allowing viewers to see her so vulnerable in the documentary.

"The grief was such a radical teacher about my life," she told the publication. "I feel like I've been through another sort of before-and-after experience."

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Bareilles said she's experienced "a little bit of a domino effect of this last chunk of time of my life — of just mental health and multiple friends dying, and the fertility odyssey, and the grief of the country."

"I think I'm not alone in how disregulated and destabilized people feel in general. I wouldn't know how to dress it up any other way. It just feels like this is what it wants to be," she said.

Earlier this week, Bareilles announced her new album Good Grief is slated for release on Aug. 28.

"This whole collection of songs felt like transmissions rather than a deliberate attempt to make sense of the world," she said in a press release statement at the time, adding that her "deepest hope" is that the album "provides some kind of comfort or catharsis."

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