Charli XCX Revealed She Has Nerve Damage From Performing Live
“For me to give a performance that I feel is good enough, I have to really physically throw myself around.”
Charli XCX is getting real about what touring has done to her body, and it sounds pretty rough.
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“I’ve done a lot of physical damage to my body from performing,” she admitted.
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Charli went on to specify that she’s usually “in a lot of pain” while performing live. “Genuinely, physically, I have nerve damage in my neck from things that I’ve done onstage,” she explained.
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“For me to give a performance that I feel is good enough, I have to really physically throw myself around — and that makes me very upset when I do it.”
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Charli went on to describe the act of live performance as a “hellhole,” which sounds pretty bad. But she also said that, when it came to her recent Sweat Tour with Troye Sivan, having the support of those around her made things a bit easier.
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“Being with Troye softens that quite a lot,” she said, “And a lot of the other people on the tour made me feel a lot lighter.”
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