Kylie Minogue opens up about breaking her engagement, says 'was swept up in the moment'

Singer Kylie Minogue says she knew she was not a marriage person, but got engaged because ''that's what people do''.

The 49-year-old singer split from her fiance Joshua Sasse last year, just six months after they got engaged, and she says she got ''swept up in the moment'', reported Contactmusic.

''Was I really going to get married? I had the ring on the finger, didn't I? But we hadn't actually planned a wedding. It was a beautiful moment and I loved it, but then, you know, as time goes on... What happened? It's complicated. To try to put it in a nutshell would not only be too difficult but unfair. 'Actually, I never thought I was the marrying kind.

"In my song 'A Lifetime to Repair' I say, 'I thought I'd settle down, a happy-ever-after princess...' I know for a lot of people that's where they want to end up but, for me, it never was. 'I guess I thought, 'That's what people do, maybe I'll give it a try.' 'But either it isn't for me or I was with the wrong person. I was swept up in the moment and I'm not afraid to admit that," Minogue said.

The singer says it was a ''relief'' when her relationship with Joshua ended as they had been having problems for some time.

''Making the decision to end the relationship was the hardest part. After the break-up people were saying, 'I hope you're OK', and I thought, you know I am OK. I've coped with the help of laughter, friends, music and family.

''Once it was done it was a relief to both of us because it's hard. You hang on to what is good and it's hard to let go and you feel strangely embarrassed, thinking, 'Oh, are we supposed to try to make this work?'"