Dua Lipa has shared her two cents on online bullying.
In a resurfaced interview with Attitude Magazine, the singer shed light upon the effects of social media bullying
She began recalling, “I experienced a [expletive] tonne [of bullying] at the end of my first record.”
“And it was definitely something that gave me anxiety and made me upset and made me feel like I wasn’t good enough and made me feel like, maybe I’m not meant to be here and on the 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 out, like a video of me dancing and they’re like, ‘Ah well, she has no stage presence’ – but they’d never been to one of my shows, they’d never seen me perform.”
Dua also described how the “snippet” culture ignores context and allows a momentary awkwardness to be magnified into a permanent label.
She shared, “They would take one small snippet and run with it and it would become a whole thing.”
She concluded by saying, “For a short period of time, it messed with my mental health. You know, I’d go on stage and if somebody was filming me, in my head, I wasn’t, like, ‘Oh, they’re filming me because they want to keep it,’” noting, “I was like, ‘They’re going to film it so they can laugh at me or something’.”
