Ellie Goulding has admitted that she initially struggled to cope with the pressures of fame.

The ‘Starry Eyed’ singer, who is currently dating dubstep maestro Skrillex, told Q magazine she found the chart success and BRIT Award win difficult to deal with so early on in her career:

“I started being unable to cope with anything. My brain was going 'sorry, overload, crash.' I think the reason I started writing songs was because my brain was too full. It happened so quickly. I felt I didn’t deserve the BRIT.

"I’d see a bad review and be, 'I’m f****d.' I felt there was a backlash because I had so much attention. I felt like everyone was watching me and trying to turn me into a celebrity.”

But the 25-year-old, who releases new album, ‘Halycon,’ next month, revealed that she started to feel more at ease after taking a course of cognitive behavioural therapy:

“Literally, within one show, the fear had gone. I did this (raises middle fingers into the air) to everything that had happened. I was 'right, that’s it. I’m going in now.'

“I was committed. I wasn’t going to apologise any more. That’s the non-goth side of me, the part where I’m strong. You just have to power through. You have to.”