Dua Lipa has shared her two cents on online bullying.
In a resurfaced interview with Attitude magazinethe singer sheds light on the consequences of bullying on social media
She began to remember, “I have a [expletive] tons [of bullying] at the end of my first record.”
“And it was definitely something that gave me anxiety and upset me and made me feel like I wasn’t good enough and made me feel like maybe I wasn’t meant to be here and on stage,” she added.
“Even after the Grammys, some people were like, ‘Well, she doesn’t deserve it. There were so many things, especially when you start, like a video of me dancing and they’re like, ‘Oh well, she doesn’t have stage presence’ — but they had never been to any of my shows, they had never seen me perform.”
Dua also described how “snippet” culture ignores context and allows a temporary awkwardness to be magnified into a permanent label.
She shared, “They would take a little fragment and run with it and it would become a whole.”
She concluded by saying, “For a short period of time it affected my mental health. You know, I would go on stage and when someone was filming me, in my head, I wasn’t thinking, ‘Oh, they’re filming me because they want to keep it,'” noting, “I was like, ‘They’re going to film it so they can make fun of me or something.’ ‘
