OPENING UP

Grammy Winner Reveals Cocaine Addiction Battle

The 30-year-old singer discussed her struggles in a candid TikTok.

Singer Doja Cat has revealed she previously struggled with cocaine and alcohol addiction in a new social media video. The Grammy Award-winning artist said she has a “disclaimer that I don’t want to make” before opening up about how she “struggled” with cocaine around eight years ago. She added that she is “well past that.” In her TikTok video posted online Monday, Doja Cat warned that “undiagnosed mental illness” combined with heavy social media use is an “extreme issue that I think a lot of us don’t understand.” The 30-year-old also said her struggles with alcohol resulted in spending more time online. “The best example for my experience is using the internet as a means of validation to the negative thoughts in my head, which were then brought on by drinking alcohol,” she said. Doja Cat, who has more than 29 million followers on TikTok, is an avid social media user. Her latest candid video comes after she revealed in March that she had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD).