Ellie Goulding was “treated as a sexual object” by producers when trying to make it as a teenager in the music industry.The Love Me Like You Do hitmaker started out in music in her late teens, eventually dropping out of university when she began to find success and releasing her debut album when she was 22.
Starting out, the now 33-year-old says some producers tried to prey upon her vulnerability in order to get her to have sex with them. “The first producer I met wanted to sleep with me,” she tells The Guardian. “And I was like, why?
I didn’t see myself as an object of desire. I wouldn’t be able to get home because I couldn’t afford it, and they would say: ‘You can stay.’ But there would always be the suggestion of something.
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