Little Mix star Leigh-Anne Pinnock opened up about “horrible” online trolling she has suffered but revealed she is in “such a better place now”.
The singer chatted to Lorraine Kelly on her self-titled morning show about dealing with cruel Internet hate, which she branded “irrelevant” and “nasty”, and revealed her coping mechanisms.
“It’s horrible. Especially having to deal with it in the public eye, it is nasty,” she said. “But I swear just surrounding yourself with positive people, people who are uplifting, and not looking at it [helps].
“I am in such a better place now. I am so proud of who I am but it takes a while. Even now, I am not 100 percent. I don’t think anyone ever really is.”
Pinnock added that it is a “journey to self-love” and admitted it had been a “hard journey”, before thanking her bandmates Jade Thirlwall, Jesy Nelson and Perrie Edwards for helping her through dark times.
The singer gushed: “I am just lucky to have the girls. To have the unit. I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t have that.”
Pinnock also spilled some details on her romance with Watford footballer Andre Gray, who she has been dating since 2016.
“We are really good, yeah. What can I say? He is perfect,” Pinnock smiled. “If I was single now, I think I would find it really hard to find someone who loves you for you. How do you even know that sort of thing? But I am really lucky, he is a good boy.”
Fellow Little Mix star Nelson showed her support for Pinnock by sharing a video of Pinnock on the ITV show on her Instagram stories.
Nelson captioned: “My little buba on Lorraine. You were amazing @leighannepinnock.”
Lorraine airs weekdays at 8.30am on ITV.
