Addison Rae opens up about stepping away from social media

Shot to fame as one of TikTok’s early breakout stars, Addison Rae is taking a step back from social media after rising to fame through the platform.

Rae made an appearance on Therapuss with Jake Shane, where the singer shared the reason why she retired from social media, even though it was the medium that made her famous.

“I felt so misunderstood,” she revealed about being on social media. “But I was sharing so much.”

“Sometimes you do what you need to do to get where you want to go,” she continued. “I wasn't showing every part of myself, as one mostly doesn't, you know. There are elements of yourself that surely you don't share online that aren't bad — they just aren't things you're willing to share or talk about or, you know, show.”

The Obsessed hitmaker shared that while spending time working on her career, she realised the importance of keeping things private.

“I think privacy becomes really important over time,” she resumed. “Like, 'OK, what can I allow people access to that isn't going to hurt me? Or they're not going to use to make me feel conflicted in my own life decisions that I have to make?’”

The He’s All That star said that “being misunderstood” annoys her and gets on her nerves, but she has found a way to live with the comments people make about her on the internet.

“I think over time, I've realized that if somebody's commenting that 'I'm not this' [or] 'This is not who I am'... Or when I was 19 I was more authentic,” the singer said, “I'm like, okay, well, I just moved to LA. I'm like, geez. I was from a small town, of course I didn't experience a lot of things or have the opportunity to even figure out who I was in those ways, because it was life whenever you grow up in a small town.”

The Headphones On singer further added in another part of the conversation with the host that she is also taking a step back from other things in her life.

Rae is stepping back so she can avoid feeling too exposed.

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