{"id":265171,"date":"2019-01-10T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T22:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1003954"},"modified":"2019-01-10T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T22:45:10","slug":"normani-reveals-that-being-in-fifth-harmony-took-a-toll-on-her-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/normani-reveals-that-being-in-fifth-harmony-took-a-toll-on-her-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Normani Reveals That Being In Fifth Harmony Took a ”Toll” On Her Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Normani Kordei<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is ready to speak her truth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 22-year old singer opened up in a recent issue<\/a>\u00a0of Billboard<\/em> about her struggles with race and identity\u00a0as a part of the disbanded music group,\u00a0Fifth Harmony<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Normani detailed how her childhood prepared her for the adversity she would face when she joined the girl band. Her education at a\u00a0predominately white elementary school was later paralleled when she found herself being one of the only people of color in Fifth Harmony. As the only black member of the group, Normani felt alone when she dealt with a lot of her experiences. She told Billboard<\/em> that while the other girls of Fifth Harmony tried to be there to support her, it just wasn’t the same.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think they had the tools that they needed, because it’s not their experience. I can give them credit for trying to be there for me, but at the same time… The girls don’t experience things the way I did,” explained the singer.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0At one time in 2016,\u00a0Camila Cabello<\/a><\/strong>had to ask her fans to stop cyber-bullying\u00a0Normani.\u00a0The fans\u00a0believed Kordei\u00a0was shading Cabello in a Facebook Live interview and they began to attack her. She received death threats, messages with racial slurs and pictures of lynchings on her social media pages.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She says the racism she dealt with had subconscious effects on her mental health. “You think, ‘Why am I the least followed in the group?’ Even if you don’t recognize that you’re paying close attention to it, it takes a toll on your confidence. You worry \u2014 is it me? Is it because I’m black? Or am I just not talented?” said Normani.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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And Normani\u00a0wasn’t just targeted by\u00a0Cabello fans and social media trolls, it happened behind studio doors as well.\u00a0“So many sessions, I would cry like I’ve never cried before,” revealed Normani. For example, she detailed the story of\u00a0when she was the only one in the group restricted to just background vocals on the song “No Way.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite insisting that all the women had a strong relationship,\u00a0Cabello was the first member to leave the group for a solo career<\/a>. This\u00a0was quickly followed by an indefinite hiatus<\/a> from Fifth Harmony back in March 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, Normani made it clear\u00a0at the 2018 American Music Awards that she was going to be making a comeback with a solo project.<\/p>\n

She previously told E! News that her time after the hiatus was going to be spent growing.\u00a0“I’ve been able to start from the ground up. I’ve been able to wear many different hats,” she\u00a0shared with E!<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Nonetheless, Kordei continues to feel the pressure to prove herself. “There’s so much that I have to get off my chest,” she told Billboard<\/em>. “And there’s a responsibility I have as a black woman\u00a0\u2014 one of the very few to have the power to kill it. Even in the mainstream, there’s not many of us.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Normani hopes that her\u00a0new album\u00a0is going to allow her to break out of that confinement that she once felt as a young star.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Normani’s\u00a0new single with\u00a0Sam Smith<\/a><\/strong> comes\u00a0<\/strong>out Friday, January 11th.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Don’t miss E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Billboard Normani Kordei\u00a0is ready to speak her truth.\u00a0 The 22-year old singer opened up in a recent issue\u00a0of Billboard about her struggles with race and identity\u00a0as a part of the disbanded music group,\u00a0Fifth Harmony.\u00a0 Normani detailed how her childhood prepared her for the adversity she would face when she joined the girl band. Her education […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-265171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 09:02:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}