Lorde’s opening up about why she used MDMA - and it’s not what you’d expect.
The Kiwi singer appeared on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ this week to chat about her new album and performing on her upcoming tour.
During their chat Lorde revealed it was actually MDMA therapy that did the trick at making her stage fright vanish.
“I had truly the most horrific stage fright, really since I was like five doing community theater,” she said.
When Colbert asked what she used to help her, Lorde wasn’t sure if it was suitable for TV chat, asking: “Can I talk about it?”
“Well, it’s MDMA therapy. Yeah. Truly, like, changed the game on my stage fright.”
She added: “What I’ve heard, some of these [fears] live very deep in the body, and you hold on to it.”
You hold on to a response like stage fright for reasons that no amount of talk therapy or brain use could get at.
“But when you bypass that and get to the body, something shifts. And that totally happened for me. I tried everything for my stage fright," she continued.
I did this therapy, and then literally, I woke up the next day and I was like, ‘Oh, it’s over. I know it’s over.
Lorde went on to talk to Stephen about new album ‘Virgin’, dropping tomorrow.
Among the tracks on the record is a song titled 'Clearblue' - which she has confessed she struggles to listen to.
"There's a song that I love so much called Clearblue that is about unprotected sex," she explained on the 'Therapuss' podcast.
"And just the experience of taking a pregnancy test, and like, this flood of emotions that goes through your body. Whatever you want to say - it's such a moment."
The album cover shows an x-ray of a crotch with the zip line of trousers running down the front and an IUD visible where the womb is located.
“I was trying to make a document that reflected my femininity: raw, primal, innocent, elegant, openhearted, spiritual, masc."
She added: "I'm proud and scared of this album. There's nowhere to hide. I believe that putting the deepest parts of ourselves to music is what sets us free."
