Dua Lipa went through “two years of humiliation” after fans mocked her dancing.
The 28-year-old pop star was ridiculed following a performance of New Rules at the 2018 Brit Awards and admitted that she didn’t get over it until she came back with her multi-award-winning album ‘Future Nostalgia’ in 2020 to get over things it but has developed a “tough skin” since becoming world-famous.
She told the Saturday Guardian magazine: “When people took that snippet of me dancing online and just turned it into a meme, 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 thing that made me the happiest — performing and writing songs — was also making me really upset because people were picking everything apart that I’d been working on, and I had to learn all that in front of everyone.
“In the public eye, I was figuring out who I was as an artist, as a performer.
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