Ellie Goulding has said that she was “painfully shy” as a child and had to overcome her fear of being “embarrassed” about performing on stage.
The singer, 33, told the BBC’s Later… With Jools Holland that while she always wanted the main part in school plays she had to deal with the “paradox” of also being reserved.
She said: “I was in lots of school plays, and I always wanted to be the main part in the school plays, but I was a very shy person, and it was this strange kind of paradox because I was always wanting to perform and sing, but I was painfully shy. “I remember just being so shy and always being embarrassed, all the time, about everything.” She added that the first time she performed at an open mic night she was a “nervous wreck”
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