Doja Cat Strips Down, Gets Real About Mental Health

has explained how her Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis has meant she has found it hard to trust her romantic partners.

The singer, 30, first spoke about her BPD diagnosis in March, admitting she has been 'struggling' and has been in therapy for years.

In a new interview with ELLE UK, the star has spoken in more depth about how she's had to use coping mechanisms in her every day life.

'If I have a boyfriend and he leaves just to run errands, my brain thinks he's breaking up with me,' she explained of her BPD, which is a mental health condition that causes symptoms such as 'mood swings, anger and impulsiveness.'  

'I have to scrape against it and teach myself that that's not happening to me. I'm safe.'

BPD is 'a mental health condition that affects the way people feel about themselves and others, making it hard to function in everyday life,' according to the Mayo Clinic. 

Doja, whose real name is Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini, also explained how she intentionally puts up walls while also feeling vulnerable:

'There are little things I do to make people think I don't care, or that I don't feel anything.'

'I do those things on purpose to feel tough. And I am tough. But I'm not that tough. It is a mask.'

Doja recently admitted she was a 'serial dater' and was last linked to actor Joseph Quinn, with whom she was first spotted in London in August 2024.

For the magazine, Doja posed for a wild shoot which saw her strip down to her underwear and pull a series of outlandish poses. 

Next up for the star is the continuation of her epic Tour Ma Vie world tour, which arrives in the UK for a string of dates later this month before heading to Europe and the US and concluding with a night at Madison Square Garden in November.

Doja is excited to bring her show to UK fans, gushing that the 'enthusiastic' London crowd makes it one of her favourite places to perform, but she confessed she is also looking forward to a long post-tour break. 

'I think I want to take three years off,' she told ELLE UK. 'I want to just do whatever.'

'I might do another mural.'

'I'm going to furnish this whole upper area of my house because there's literally nothing in here and there's been nothing in here for four years or five.'

The busy star released her fifth album in September, which featured a heavy '80s influence. 

Vie debuted at number 4 on the US Billboard 200. 

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