Lizzo Gets Real About Downside Of Viral Fame: 'I Have An Anxiety Attack'

Lizzo is opening up about she is affected by viral fame.

The "Still Bad" singer appeared on the May 14 episode of the Therapuss podcast, where she spoke to host Jake Shane about how the heightened attention from certain videos can increase her anxiety, per Billboard.

"All viral ain't good viral. The internet don't know that they think all viral is good viral. It's not," she said, adding that it can even negatively impact her mental health. "Sometimes when my video's going viral, I have an anxiety attack... And I'll be like, 'oh f---, what did I do wrong. I did something wrong,' because I don't read comments anymore."

The "Good As Hell" musician added that's it's been years since she read comments on social media, noting, "I never scrolled through my comments because that's hell, but I saw TikTok comments got so mean. You know when I really stopped after the very backhanded compliments trend."

However, Lizzo knows first hand how going viral can also lead to something positive, specifically calling out when her 2017 song "Truth Hurts" was used in the 2019 Netflix film Someone Great and the track subsequently skyrocketed to the top of the charts years later.

"I was like, 'Okay, cool.' That s--- went so crazy — it launched 'Truth Hurts' to the No. 1 song. A song that had been out for three years. From that one sync," she said, adding that it "changed my f---ing life."