SZA was bullied for being “awkward” in highschool.
The 33-year-old singer – whose actual identify is Solána Imani Rowe – defined that as a teen she was “attacked” for being “clumsy” and apprehensive that she would by no means have the “approval” of her friends.
She mentioned: “I used to be bullied as a result of I wasn’t quiet and awkward on the identical time. I wasn’t this unhappy little sufferer, however I used to be getting attacked extra simply because I used to be like ‘What’s fallacious with you?’ power. I at all times thought, ‘Oh my gosh.’ I will by no means have anyone’s approval in life, this needs to be my defining issue, this needs to be the underside line.”
The ‘Kiss Me Extra’ hitmaker added that she did not attend her promenade as a result of she had no pals, however now finds it “bizarre” to need to stroll round with a bodyguard due to her fame and insisted that her highschool days have left her “grow to be who he’s” right this moment.
She instructed this week’s version of PEOPLE: “I spotted that every one the issues that made me really feel so dumb have been really what made me who I’m. It is like I did not go to promenade as a result of I did not have pals and had nobody to go to promenade with… [and now] It is so bizarre that my life has grow to be [having] a bodyguard whereas touring to events. All of these items, if I had such a satisfying existence and expertise in highschool, I’d have felt validated to the purpose the place I now not wanted to do the rest. [So] I simply needed to do extra, needed to be extra as a result of I used to be like, ‘This shitty expertise cannot be the top as a result of whether it is, I am cooked.’