Charli XCX has revealed she is in the 'worst place mentally' she has ever been, prompting her to step back from social media and reduce her coffee intake. The 33-year-old singer, whose real name is Charlotte Aitchison, admitted in a candid interview with Rolling Stone that her anxiety had become physically overwhelming.
“I have actually been a lot more offline, I don’t really look as much anymore. It’s just better for my brain,” she said. “I know people probably won’t believe me, because I am inherently, at least in the past, a very online artist. But I recently have been really struggling with my mental health to the point where, if I’m being real, I’m in the worst place mentally that I’ve been in my life.”
The Brat album creator also revealed she is cutting back on media interviews to manage her anxiety. “It’s just how I feel. People already think I’m a bitch, so… I’m very much at peace with it. It’s cool, and it’s not drama or anything like that,” she said. “It’s just me trying to do what’s good for me, because it got to a place where my anxiety was physically affecting me, and I can’t actually proceed in life like that.”
Charli has experienced a meteoric rise in recent years, with her 2024 album Brat sparking a cultural phenomenon dubbed 'Brat summer'. In 2025, she married her long-term boyfriend, Daniel from The 1975, at Hackney Town Hall. She also released a soundtrack for the film Wuthering Heights in February 2026.
Looking ahead, the singer is preparing to release her next album, Music, Fashion, Film, which she says will have a very different feel to Brat. “Things have changed now,” she told Rolling Stone. “I’m interested in making things really intimate between me and my audience, and sitting down one-on-one with a person and having a conversation.”
