Chart-topping pop star reveals painful ‘nerve damage’ from feral stage performances-Emily Bashforth-Entertainment – Metro

Carli XCX goes all out when she’s performing (Picture: Will Heath/NBC via Getty Images)

Charli XCX has revealed that her utterly feral Brat Tour has caused lasting health problems, as she’s suffered ‘nerve damage’ from the gigs.

The Guess hitmaker’s live performances are highly energetic, with the 32-year-old pop superstar twerking and thrusting herself all over the stage during her high-octane shows.

She’s also been known to bring out special guests, including, most recently, 00s chart-topper Robyn.

Charli’s antics even include gyrating under pouring rain, intense choreography, and even lighting up cigarettes indoors – and she has now revealed she’s caused herself a lot of ‘physical’ harm in the process of delighting her fans.

She said: ‘I’ve done a lot of physical damage to my body from performing.

‘Genuinely, physically, I have nerve damage in my neck from things that I’ve done onstage.’

The singer’s Brat Tour has been a massive success (Picture: Katja Ogrin/Redferns)

Charli added to Variety’s Hitmakers issue: ‘For me to give a performance that I feel is good enough, I have to really physically throw myself around — and that makes me very upset when I do it.’

The Von Dutch singer – who is known for being a party girl – admits she doesn’t get much shuteye these days.

She quipped: ‘But I also don’t really sleep these days. 2020… um, what year is it?

‘2024 has not been a very restful year, for sure.’

Elsewhere, the 360 vocalist admitted she resolved a ‘tricky situation’ by collaborating with New Zealand pop star Lorde – whose real name is Ella Yelich – on a remix of her viral Brat album’s track Girl, So Confusing.

After years of comparing herself to the Royals hitmaker, and having comparisons drawn by music lovers, the brunette beauties teamed up.

Charli’s latest record went viral over the summer (Picture: Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for LACMA)

She collaborated with pals and fellow stars including Troye Sivan and Billie Eilish (Picture: Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images)

She said: ‘For Girl, So Confusing, the second I wrote it, I was like, “I need Ella [Lorde] to be on a remix of this song.”

‘But I didn’t know how to approach it because obviously it’s a tricky situation.

‘And when I finally did, she actually suggested, “Maybe I should do a verse.” Within 24 or 48 hours she came back with that incredible verse, which made me really, really emotional.’

The song includes the lyrics: ‘Sometimes I think I might hate you / Maybe you just wanna be me and people say we’re alike / They say we’ve got the same hair / We talk about making music / But I don’t know if it’s honest.’

The Blame It On Your Love singer previously admitted she feared Lorde would ‘hate’ her for not telling her the song was about her.

Charli confessed that she was ‘jealous’ of Lorde for her success with her debut single, which came out in 2013, the same year Charli released her debut album, True Romance, which failed to reach the Top 40.

Charli has spoken candidly about her tumultuous relationship with Lorde (Picture: Kevin Mazur/MTV1415/WireImage)

In a candid interview with Rolling Stone UK, Charli said: ‘When Royals came out, I was super jealous of the success that that song got and that Ella got.

‘You piece all this stuff together in your brain, like, “She was into my music. She had big hair; I had big hair. She wore black lipstick; I once wore black lipstick.” You create these parallels and think, “Well, that could have been me.”

‘But it couldn’t have, because we’re completely different people. I wasn’t making music that sounded anything like Royals.’

Charli added that she has been guilty of ‘reading what [she] wants’ into things, because she used to feel ‘insecure’ about aspects of her own work.

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