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Jewel is getting real about her experiences as a woman in the music industry.

On Friday, the Alaska-born musician gave a career-spanning interview to Stereogum about her unconventional rise to fame, signing her first record deal while experiencing homelessness, and enduring sexism from several music industry figures — all of which influenced the lyrics of her new album, Freewheelin' Woman.

The four-time Grammy winner, born Jewel Kilcher, notably lived in her car upon signing her first major label deal with Atlantic Records in the mid-'90s, though she claims her story has been told over the years through a "patriarchal lens."

"The whole world knows I lived in my car. They think because I was fighting for my dream of music. That is an absolute misrepresentation of what happened," the 47-year-old performer told the publication. "I was living in my car because I wouldn't have s*x with my boss. I refused to be leveraged and he wouldn't give me my paycheck and I couldn't pay my rent and I started living in my car and then my car got stolen and I was homeless because of that, because I wouldn't bang a boss."

"But it was almost like people didn't even have the ears to hear it,"

Furthermore, the singer spoke about clapping back at radio interviewers in the '90s who'd make sexist comments about her appearance. "They'd say, 'So, Jewel, how do you give a blowjob with those f—ed up teeth?' Live on air," she said. "I would go, 'You know what? I can fix my teeth, but you'll never fix being stupid.' And I'd get kicked out of the radio station… I got escorted out of so many radio stations because I wouldn't take s—."