Stormzy tells Louis Theroux pressures of fame made him 'crash out' of public eye
dailyrecord.co.ukAfter a sudden exit from the public eye, Stormzy is back with a fresh confidence, which he will discuss with Documentarian Louis Theroux.Two years after emerging as Britain's most successful rapper, Stormzy is preparing to release his third album, after the stress of sky rocketing fame led him to completely bow out from the limelight.
He is also ready to settle down and "become a man", after recovering from his split with DJ Maya Jama in 2019.In a BBC2 interview with Louis, which airs next Tuesday, he says: “I just had this feeling of being overwhelmed, of thinking I can’t handle this.
I’d often just crash out and get super depressed or super withdrawn and reclusive and just disappear."I’d just stay at home and smoke a lot of weed."It was in early 2020 that the platinum-selling star quit social media and stopped doing interviews, reports the Mirror.
In 2019 he had become the first Black solo British artist to headline Glastonbury, released chart-topping second album Heavy Is The Head, and been hailed by Time magazine as a “next generation leader, a trailblazer shaping the world”.All this after launching the Stormzy Scholarship funding Black students at Cambridge University, which recently announced 30 more bursaries.
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