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Fifth Harmony star on fame: 'I watched my grandmother's burial on FaceTime'

'Work From Home' hitmakers Fifth Harmony are enjoying phenomenal global success at the moment, but the five members have revealed that it's not all it's cracked up to be and they sometimes bow under the pressure. 

Songstress Lauren Jauregui confessed to Billboard magazine that fame isn't what she expected at all and it's sometimes hard to keep persisting in this career when she hears what her friends from home are doing:

"They sell you this ­present of rainbows and butterflies, and as a 16-year-old that's what I bought. It's why I did X Factor and why I ended up in a group. But then you're working so hard, so young. [Meanwhile] my friends are in college, ­telling me about their days and what they're studying. You're having to put on a smile on a red carpet. It's like, 'Who am I? Am I for myself or for this?'"

The star went onto add that she was recently reminded of who she was before joining Fifth Harmony and broke down while talking about it: "I rekindled a ­friendship I hadn't had in a long time and I was reminded" -- she begins to sob -- "of all the parts of me that had left. I was like, 'Wow, I love to paint and to write, and to be outside' ... sorry."

Dinah Jane Hansen expressed similar feelings on the celebrity world and confessed that being away from her loved ones is particularly hard: "I love touring, but the schedule ­traumatised me. I was like, 'What kind of job are we doing?' I watched my great-grandmother being buried on FaceTime. We're all so family-oriented, and we've all lost people on the road."

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