For context, Lili has long been open about fighting with depression and deal with problems related to body image. She hasn’t shied away from calling out other celebrities either, take when she criticized Kim Kardashian’s Met Gala weight loss and wrote on Instagram: “Please stop supporting these stupid and harmful celebs whose image revolves around their bodies.”
“Sometimes I feel a bit like the black sheep talking,” Lili said. IndieWire. That said, she understands how rapid attention volumes online can put people off.
“There is no guide here, no one teaches you how to wake up with 20,000 tweets telling you to kill yourself or get a nose job or that you’re fat. Whatever the case, you just don’t sign.” prepared for that and no one really teaches you how to handle that, you’re just expected to. There is nothing more horrible than seeing your name trending on Twitter, I assure you.”
“When someone talks about eating disorders or promotes unhealthy habits, that’s where I have to step in,” she continued. “I’m like, ‘You’re hurting me and you’re provoking me, which means you owe millions of other people who are listening to what you’re saying.’ It gets me in trouble, but I guess I’d rather be in trouble than someone who doesn’t stand up for anything.”
“If I have to become someone who maybe has a reputation for ‘annoying,’ great, so be it,” he continued. “I don’t really walk around thinking, ‘Oh, I have to be a role model.'”
“I’m just thinking about when I was 15, when I was even 12, the only The person I heard talking about her mental health was Demi Lovato, and I was like, ‘Wow, that’s great and interesting to hear from this person who has a TV show and plays records and clearly has money and glamour, and yet they’re talking about bipolar disorder.
“I thought that was so deep, and I hope young men and women today can have at least a couple more examples of that and just see behind the bullshit, because it’s all bullshit,” he added.
You can read the full interview here.
