Rita Ora on reading gossip about herself: 'I would obsess over it'

Songstress Rita Ora has revealed that she used to be 'obsessed' with reading gossip about herself both online and in the papers.

The beauty told Refinery 29 that it took her a long time to develop a skin thick enough to simply stop caring about the untrue things being written about her in the press, but she's glad she got there because Googling her name was so destructive:

“I used to be obsessed with it. I would Google my name and blah, blah, blah. But see, even talking about it now makes it a topic of conversation. The gossip side doesn’t affect what I do."

Ora went onto add that her private life is nobody's business but hers: "The personal stuff of actually, like, being in a relationship is what affects me. I don’t expect anybody to understand my relationships, because they're not in my position in that moment, in that relationship.”

She also spoke about working with Chris Brown, adding that she didn't give any thought to his dark past and instead saw the collaboration as a creative experience and nothing else:

"Honestly, it was so easy. It was unforced. He was next door recording at the same LA studio, and I walked in and said, ‘Hey, there's this song I need you to hear, I want you to be involved in.’ It was that simple. It was, like, artist to artist. I didn’t think that far ahead (to the abuse). I'm just a fan of his music and I wanted to work as a musician with another musician, really. All that other stuff has nothing to do with me."

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