Ariana Grande says touring isn't good for her health and performing is 'hell'
The singer said she'd 'give anything' for it to be a year ago
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Your support makes all the difference.Ariana Grande has candidly revealed that she does not think touring is good for her mental health.
The singer, who recently performed at Coachella and is currently on her Sweetener world tour, shared the insight on Twitter in a now-deleted tweet in response to a fan who’d said: “Music is your therapy and I love seeing it heal you.”
According to Grande, she finds music “healing” but compared performing to “hell”.
“Making it is healing,” the 25-year-old wrote. “Performing it is like reliving it all over again and it is hell.”
The pop star then followed up on the topic in another tweet, explaining to one follower who asked if touring was good for her health that that touring has actually been very difficult.
“I have so much on my mind and it’s so heavy and no energy to process or work thru any of it but I’m trying hard,” Grande wrote, before adding: “I wish it were a year ago. I’d give anything.”
The singer concluded her emotional tweets informing her more than 62m followers that she wishes she could give them better energy but just feels “empty”.
Grande, whose ex-boyfriend Mac Miller died in September, ended her engagement with Pete Davidson in October and is still dealing with the effects of the Manchester bombing which occurred during her concert in 2017.
The singer’s tweets come days after she shared an image of her brain in comparison to a brain with PTSD, which showed a notable resemblance.
In response to concern from fans at the time, Grande said on her Instagram story that she hadn’t meant to “startle anyone” but that she’d been blown away by the images.
"I am constantly working on my health/learning how to process pain (aren’t we all), everyday is different but I’m doing my best,” she wrote.
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