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Ellie Goulding: 'I cried after Beyoncé told me she was a big fan'

'Starry Eyed' hitmaker Ellie Goulding has confessed that Beyoncé paid her the ultimate compliment at the 2014 BRIT Awards after telling her that she is a 'big fan' of her music. 

Both singers performed at the awards ceremony back in February and Goulding told Capital FM that the 'Halo' sensation had nothing but praise for her when they bumped into each other backstage at London's O2 Arena:

"I said on Instagram she makes me very proud to be a woman. She told me she was a big fan at the BRITs and I shed a tear."

"She was literally on her way to perform backstage and she stopped me backstage on the corridor and I did shed a little Beyonce-induced tear."

Goulding recently told Digital Spy that becoming a professional recording artist wasn't something she genuinely believed would actually happen: "It's sort of been a rollercoaster for me, but [I've ended up] in a good place. I never knew I was going to be a singer. In the beginning it was all kind of uncertain... it took me at least a year to just play and sing at the same time, so that in itself took a lot of graft." 

Watch her full performance from the 2014 BRIT Awards here: