Ellie Goulding admits lockdown has knocked her confidence and she ‘can’t imagine performing on stage now’

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Glastonbury performance, Ellie – who has just announced new tour dates for 2021 – told BBC Breakfast: ‘I can’t even imagine now performing on stage. ‘I watched my Glastonbury performance and I can’t believe I did that in front of all those people.

I think I am going to have to build up all that courage.’Ellie explained that when she’s on stage she goes into ‘that other character’ and her confidence comes ‘out of nowhere’, but as soon as she finishes her performance, her shyness comes back. ‘I have never gone to any of my own after-show parties, genuinely, in the whole time I have toured, because I am just a bit too shy,’ she confessed.Ellie continued: ‘There is always a misconception that if you are a performer and you can perform to all.