Dua Lipa disclosed that she had to step away from social media due to overwhelming criticism following a viral dancing video from 2017.
In an interview with The Guardian coinciding with her latest album release, “The Radical Optimism,” the 28-year-old singer pondered the consequences of becoming an internet meme.
“When people took that snippet of me dancing online and just turned it into a meme,” she shared, “and then when I won the best new artist Grammy and people were like, ‘She’s not deserving of it, she’s got no stage presence, she’s not going to stick around.’”
“Those things were hurtful. It was humiliating. I had to take myself off Twitter,” the New Rules singer added.
Dua elaborated on how being in the nascent phase of her career as a performer and musician made it challenging to cope with the scrutiny, particularly given her young age at the time.
“In the public eye, I was figuring out who I was as an artist, as a performer. All that was happening while I was 22, 23 years old and still growing up. You have to build tough skin. You have to be resilient,” shared the pop star.
“It never was like I couldn’t get out of bed because of what I thought people thought of me. I didn’t care to that degree. But that’s when it was most heightened for me,” she added.
