Source : PERTHNOW NEWS
Tate McRae battled “dark” thoughts after concluding her Miss Possessive Tour last year.
The 23-year-old pop star spent much of 2025 on the road before finishing the trek in November and she’s now confessed she went into a downward spiral after she got home – even comparing herself to tragic poet Sylvia Plath, who spent years struggling with depression before taking her own life in 1963.
Tate told Variety: “I remember reading Sylvia Plath being like: ‘I am her’. My thoughts felt so dark at the time, and I felt so lonely.
“I really needed to come back into my body and regulate my nervous system.”
The singer added she suffered sleepless nights and couldn’t even look at herself in the mirror, but she found a way to address her mental health issues and feel better.
She explained: “I was so shot after the tour. I couldn’t really sleep at night. I’d seen so much of myself that I was like: ‘I want to go into a black room and not look in a mirror for six months.’
“And I think I really had to check myself and be like: ‘You’re not the worst person in the world. You’re not the ugliest person in the world. You haven’t done everything wrong. And, you know, you’re just doing what you love’.”
Tate also revealed dancing and performing helps her feel happy again, saying: “I think it’s muscle memory. When I was a kid feeling awkward in my skin or feeling uncomfortable, dancing was my way of feeling cool and feeling like I excelled at something.
“And I think I feel that way when I perform, like I’m in my element.”
She also tries not to read any negative comments about herself on social media, adding: “I’m always shocked by how much people speculate and talk about things. It’s really scary. So I try not to read it, and let it drift off into the wind …
“I try to keep my relationships as sacred and private as possible. I love the people in my life. They love me. You just try to keep that circle as positive and supportive as possible.
“And the outside noise, I can’t do anything about that. Focusing my energy on something that I can’t control, it just puts me in a bad mood.”
