Lauren Jauregui Gets Candid About Fifth Harmony Split

Lauren Jauregui got candid about the Fifth Harmony split during a recent interview on the Zach Sang Show. 

"I needed everything to have happened exactly the way it did, to be honest, because everything and exactly how it unraveled ... It taught me so much about myself and my character," she admitted.

"This year has a been an insane amount of exploration, just kind of getting really deep down into my own heart and my own things I've been through and things I've not really talked to myself about," Jauregui explained of her time since the group announced its hiatus in March. "I feel like a lot of us kind of float through life and we get to this point of numbness, and we don't really know how we got there. We're not really feeling as much. And that's to say to the good things as much as the bad things. I noticed when I lost touch of feeling, I lost my artistry. I lost myself and what I love to do because I couldn't really get in touch with that anymore."

"I kind of snapped into a place where I was like, 'Be alive. Try to absorb what's going on,'" she continued. "Even then, a lot of the stuff happens so quickly you don't have time to absorb it. You don't have time to process it. You're on to the next, and if you're not on to the next you're a flop. They don't give you time to breathe or enjoy what you're doing, or to even allow it to grow into something anymore. If it didn't chart within the first five minutes of it being released, like, it's a flop."

 Jauregui spent many of her formative years — ages 16-21 — as a member of 5H, and now that she's on her own the "Expectations" singer is rediscovering herself through a "real, authentic creative process, just making sure what I'm saying means some s**t to me and then hopefully that means something to someone else."

The pop star released her first solo single last month and is hard at work on a debut album. Watch Jauregui discuss the split and how she's gotten to the place she's in now below.