Halsey has opened up about her cruel fans: “My own fans are hands down meaner to me than any other people on the planet.”
The singer chose to be vulnerable in the music video for her new song Lucky, but didn’t expect the huge backlash she received.
“My own fans are hands down meaner to me than any other people on the planet,” the singer, 29, wrote via her Tumblr on Tuesday, July 30.
Halsey noted that she was “speaking for all of you, of course,” explaining that her fandom appears to have become harsher since she last released music.
Halsey’s most recent album, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, came out in 2021.
Three years later, she dropped the singles The End and Lucky.
“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,” she explained.
The pop star confessed, “It’s hard to want to engage in a space that is completely devoid of any kindness, sympathy, patience; or to be honest human decency. Especially after years of hiding from the interactions for fear that this EXACT thing would happen.”
“I almost lost my life,” she shared. “I am not gonna do anything that doesn’t make me happy anymore. I can’t spiritually afford it.”
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In June 2024, Halsey admitted she’s “lucky to be alive”, as she’s been suffering from secret health issues.
The singer shared the news on Instagram as she promoted the release of their new single The End from their forthcoming fifth studio album.
The 29-year-old captioned the post: “Long story short, I’m lucky to be alive. Short story long, I wrote an album.”
When Halsey began battling Lupus SLE and a rare T-cell lymphoproliferative disorder, she said her music was part of what kept her going.
“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,” she confessed.
After all the negative comments, she said, “I want to crawl in a hole, and I regret coming back.”
Earlier this month, she once again gave music listeners insight into her lupus and cancer battle with the “Lucky” music video.
However, some fans took issue with Halsey’s use of sampling the same-named song from Britney Spears Oops!…I Did It Again album.
With her attire and the location, Halsey sent viewers back to the late 1990s and early 2000s in the video.
Also, she portrays the negative aspects of fame, which Britney, was dealing with at the time of her successful song release.
Before releasing the song, Halsey said she got permission from Spears to include the chorus on her tune.
However, Britney seemingly slammed Halsey’s video writing in a since-deleted X post that she felt “harassed, violated and bullied” by the piece.
Britney then quickly issued a statement via X on Friday, July 26, claiming that she wasn’t the one who posted the harsh critique of Halsey’s video.
“Fake news !!! That was not me on my phone !!!”
“I love Halsey and that’s why I deleted it 🌹 !!!”
