Brat star Charli XCX has said she is currently “in the worst place mentally that I’ve been in my life”.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old, whose real name is Charlotte Aitchison, also said she is planning to make her next tour less physically draining, adding that she has a “complicated relationship” with being on stage.<\/p>\n
She suffered nerve damage in her neck on her last tour due to “rolling around on the floor”.<\/p>\n
The singer launched a cultural moment in “Brat summer” with the release of her 2024 album Brat, causing a frenzy on social media that involved sultry fashion choices inspired by the green-and-black album cover.<\/p>\n
The Cambridge-born star told Rolling Stone that she has been using social media less as she tries to improve her mental health. <\/p>\n
“I have actually been a lot more offline, I don’t really look as much anymore. It’s just better for my brain,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I know people probably won’t believe me, because I am inherently, at least in the past, a very online artist.<\/p>\n
“But I recently have been really struggling with my mental health to the point where, if I’m being real, I’m in the worst place mentally that I’ve been in my life.”<\/p>\n
Charli XCX, who is currently preparing to release her new album Music, Fashion, Film, on 24 July, also said she is a “big believer” in therapy to deal with her mental health problems – but said she needs to go more often.<\/p>\n
She told Rolling Stone she has reduced her coffee consumption to ease anxiety.<\/p>\n
She said she is also planning to cut back on media interviews and is not interested in discussing the meaning behind her songs.<\/p>\n
The 360 singer added: “It’s just how I feel. People already think I’m a b****, so… I’m very much at peace with it. It’s cool, and it’s not drama or anything like that.<\/p>\n
“It’s just me trying to do what’s good for me, because it got to a place where my anxiety was physically affecting me, and I can’t actually proceed in life like that.”<\/p>\n
The new album follows Charli XCX’s Wuthering Heights companion record to Emerald Fennell’s film of the same name earlier this year, as well as her film The Moment, a semi-fictional look at the release of Brat and the world tour that followed.<\/p>\n
She has also appeared in other film projects this year, including Pete Ohs’s Erupcja and Julia Jackman’s 100 Nights of Hero.<\/p>\n
Source: Press Association<\/p>\n