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On her rise to fame as a teenager

She shared, “Sometimes I meet a 17 or an 18-year-old nowadays and I’m like, ‘Wow, you are such a baby.’ I can’t believe people were that mean to me.”

She added, “I was going through a break-up, working a full-time job, making [Sour], a student in high school and taking, like, three AP [college-level] classes. Looking back, I always think, ‘Wow, life will never be as hard as it was when I was 17.’”