Charli XCX says she’s “often in a lot of pain” when performing onstage due to “nerve damage” in neck

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Charli XCX has revealed that she’s “often in a lot of pain” when performing onstage due to “nerve damage” in her neck.The ‘Brat’ superstar spoke to Variety in a video interview published Wednesday (December 4), after wrapping up a UK arena tour in support of her wildly-successful sixth studio album.“I find touring really hard emotionally,” Charli admitted. “I find the stage — especially these days — to be a very angry place for me.”“I’ve done a lot of physical damage to my body from performing, and I’m often in a lot of pain when I perform.

Physically, I have nerve damage in my neck from things I’ve done on the stage.”She added that her ‘Sweat’ tour with Troye Sivan earlier this year made the endeavour “a lot easier and less of an emotional battle for me”.“For me to give a performance I feel is good enough, I have to really physically throw myself around and that makes me very upset when I do it,” she explained. “It’s kind of this hellhole, but being with Troye softens that a lot.” Watch the full Variety interview below.In another Variety interview, Charli admitted that she has mixed feelings – mostly negative – about her debut album ’14’, released in 2008 when she was 14 years old.“God, I hate that album so much.

I haven’t listened to it for a decade, at least,” she told Variety.“It was sort of transitional – there are guitar[-based] songs on that record, but also elements of me exploring dance music.

Some of those songs are terrible, but I think there was a style there, a direction, that a few people caught on to.”Not long after that, Charli discovered club music and she was soon set on the path we see now.