Halsey has opened up about receiving abuse from fans, saying some of them are “meaner to me than any other people on the planet”.
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The artist admitted in a post on Tumblr that the abuse has at points made her “regret coming back” after taking time away from music following difficulties with her health. After the release of her recent single ‘The End’, she said she was “lucky to be alive” and confirmed that she had Lupus and T-cell lymphoproliferative disorder.
“My own fans are hands down meaner to me than any other people on the planet,” they began in the post. “Not speaking for all of you, of course. But it used to be just a minority that were awful to me and now it seems like a majority have only stuck around to chime in occasionally with their opinion of how much they hate me or how awful I am.
Halsey expresses her feelings about her fans being mean to her the last months:
“it used to be just a minority that were awful to me and now it seems like a majority have only stuck around to chime in occasionally with their opinion of how much they hate me or how awful I am.” pic.twitter.com/fOln8ZEdEO
— Halsey Room (@TheHalseyRoom) July 30, 2024
“It’s hard to want to engage in a space that is completely devoid of any kindness, sympathy or patience; or to be honest human decency. Especially after years of hiding from the interactions for fear that this EXACT thing would happen. I don’t know man. I almost lost my life. I am not gonna do anything that doesn’t make me happy anymore. I can’t spiritually afford it.
“When I got sick all I could think about was getting better so I could come back and be a part of *THIS* again, but I don’t know what *this* is anymore and I want to crawl in a hole and I regret coming back.
“Anyway. I’m on my way to a PET scan. And uploading lucky stripped. Because this is the insane irony my life has become.
“I’m a person. Not a character in a music video.”
Last week, Halsey shared a new single called ‘Lucky’ which samples both Britney Spears’ song of the same name (2000) and Monica’s hit ‘Angel Of Mine’ (1998).
“‘Cause I’m so lucky, I’m a star/ But I cry, cry, cry in my lonely heart, thinking/ If there’s nothing missing in my life/ Then why do these tears come at night?” Halsey sings in the chorus of ‘Lucky’, switching the original lyrics into a first-person narrative.
In the next verse, the alt-pop artist asks: “And why she losin’ so much weight?/ I heard it’s from the drugs she ate/ And I feel her, but I can’t relate/ ‘Cause I’d never end up in that state.”
Halsey revealed that Spears had permitted her to sample the song. “I wouldn’t even dream of doing it without her blessing,” she said.
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