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Camila Cabello reveals she cried watching Jesy Nelson’s documentary about cyber bullying

"I felt her pain..."

Camila Cabello has revealed she “teared up” watching Jesy Nelson’s documentary about cyber bullying.

Last month, the Little Mix star released a documentary on BBC Three – in which she opened up about attempting suicide, and her struggle dealing with online trolls.

Speaking to The Sun about Jesy’s documentary, Camila said: “I teared up – that made such a big impression on me.”

“Not to that point but I definitely felt the depths of struggling, and when I heard that, I just really felt what she was saying. I felt her pain, and for somebody to rise out of that place takes so much strength.”

Camila rose to fame in a similar way to Jesy, as she was put into a girl group called Fifth Harmony on the US version of The X Factor – the same way Little Mix was formed on The X Factor UK.

Speaking about her own struggles with social media, Camila said: “I don’t go on Twitter at all. Twitter is f***ing terrible.”

“I’m mostly on Instagram because I want to interact with my fans. But I just felt an hour ago, ‘Eurgh, I wanna delete this app.’ You get sucked back into it again and it takes you away from real life. That’s the least of the worst scenarios.”

“The worst of the scenarios is when something happens like Jesy where you’re reading all of this hate mail from people and it’s impossible for it not to take a toll on you,” she said.

“It messes with your head so much. I think it’s so important for people to be aware of that.”

Camila, who appeared on The X Factor USA when she was just 15, recalled: “On X Factor I remember looking at my indirects on social media.”

“Constantly, people saying, ‘Oh, she’s so annoying in an interview’, ‘She tries so hard’, ‘Eurgh, her voice is so whiny’. And I remember that affecting how I acted in day-to-day life. So I decided I’m never doing it again.”

“Because I really think it would have affected my entire life and my way of being because it just takes a numb person to not be affected by that.”

The singer, who quit Fifth Harmony to go solo in 2016, said she always advises her fans to take a break from social media for their own mental health.

She said: “Sometimes when they come up to me and they’re like, ‘I’ve been struggling with so much anxiety’, I’m like, ‘Quit social media for a while. Do it’.

“Because I can’t imagine that not taking a toll on people. It’s like, being human is hard enough.”

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