Blur's Damon Albarn credits parents 'lack of sympathy' in childhood full of 'bullying'

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"My parents never had any sympathy for me, ever. Never."They would just say 'it's your fault'."They said 'you bring it on yourself'."However, the Blur star credits his parents for having this hard attitude with him.He continued: "It was very good for me.

I'm really glad that they were like that in a sense."At times I remember thinking 'it just wasn't fair I wasn't afforded that kind of sympathy'."They were like 'what did you do to get hit?'"He admitted he didn't help himself much in primary school with his "weird" habits.Damon said: "I think one of the idiotic things I did on my first day at primary school was I ate a ladybird."Stuck with me until I was 18.

He's weird, he eats ladybirds."I created my own Gollum. When I started playing the violin it was 'he eats ladybirds and plays the violin'."Damon has had a very successful career, releasing his second solo studio album, The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows last year.The album hit critical acclaim and a top 10 spot in the UK Music Charts.He recently had to apologise to Taylor Swift after he suggested in an interview that she was not responsible for writing her own songs.Damon then publicly apologised to Taylor and said his opinion had been "reduced to clickbait".He added: "I apologize unreservedly and unconditionally."The last thing I would want to do is discredit your songwriting.