Being a celebrity certainly has its perks, but the constant scrutiny from the media — and Twitter trolls — is enough to discourage even the biggest of stars. WhenDua Lipafirst started coming up in the biz,Katy Perryleveled with her, pop queen to pop queen, with some valuable advice.
“When I metKaty Perry, she was like, ‘I hope you don’t search your name,'” the 23-year-old English songstress revealed inthe cover story forELLE‘s May issue. “She was like, ‘That’s what I did at the beginning of my career, and I’d get upset about every tabloid that said something about me.’ She said, ‘Do not have notifications on. Do not read that s—, because it will stop you from doing what you love.'”
Carin Backoff
Dua Lipa.
Over the course of the wide-ranging interview, Lipa also opened up about another piece of superstar advice she got from Coldplay’s frontman.
“Chris Martinalso said to me, ‘Be kind to yourself.’ I thought it was so weird that he would say that — what does that even mean?” Eventually, she realized that his words of wisdom went hand in hand with Perry’s.
“I can’t let the opinions of others define what I feel about myself. That’s something I’m constantly telling my fans as well. Platform or no platform, musician or not, everyone’s getting bullied because everyone’s got this screen and they feel like no one can see them.”
Dua Lipa.Carin Backoff
“I didn’t plan it. It just came out of my mouth,” she said, two months after the viral moment. “But it felt right; it was obviously shade, but at the same time, he’s spoken about it and he knows what he did.”
source: people.com
