And be proud of that, be confident in it.” If something doesn’t feel right in your soul and you want to say no, say no. “A big thing I tell people is, Stay true to yourself. My nudes got leaked when I was 15 years old and if something like that happened now I think that young girl would be better protected,” she says.īut she has also very different advice for those coming up than what she received. "I think it’s a little better than when I was younger. It’s a journey I feel grateful to have experienced and I can hopefully be a voice to others who might feel the same at times.”īeer says she believes the entertainment industry is generally taking better care of its own these days than it did when her photos surfaced online. I feel stable, I feel like I love myself now and I feel confident. I obviously made the decision to try to get better and seek real solid help. “Do I continue living this way? Do I end up taking my own life and is that how the story ends? Or am I going to try, at least try, to fix my life, whatever that looks like and whatever that means,” she says. I struggled with the ideation aspect of it for years but it all really boiled up when I was 19 and I was like, I don’t want to be alive,” she says, describing herself at a crossroads. Without that reason I don’t know what could’ve and would’ve happened.”īeer recalls when she hit her lowest point and began contemplating suicide. It was the reason I got out of bed in the morning and it gave me a reason to want to survive this and stay alive. “I named my album Life Support because it really was that. The one bright spot, she says, was the album she was making at the time. “Even when I would leave my house and go outside, when I was self-harming and wearing sweatshirts people noticed and it was like, ‘Why is she wearing a hoodie in 90-degree weather?’ All of it was weighing really negatively on me and I was just feeling terrible about myself and my life.” “I wanted to so badly to disappear and be not seen for a while… but I felt like I could never get away from the public eye,” she recalls. She says she largely stepped away from it when she was in her darkest place, but found herself unable to escape the public eye.
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