Rita Ora was afraid of losing everything.
Rita Ora has admitted she felt "crushed" by the pressure to keep making hits and the "mistakes" of her career.
The 32-year-old singer spoke on Steven Bartlett's 'Diary of a CEO' podcast and got emotional when she recalled the moments when she thought she was going to lose everything in her career.
"I was living my dream, but when I woke up it was silent and I didn't feel well," he said.
"I felt like I had to work to prove my worth, I was a naive young dreamer and that's what you have to be at that age," she added.
Rita Ora, who shot to fame in 2012 with her feature on DJ Fresh's No.1 single 'Hot Right Now', has struggled with the pressure to keep releasing hits.
When asked what went wrong, he replied: “Some things that didn't put you where you wanted to be on the charts or some decisions that maybe weren't the right ones. Mistakes were made."
Rita Ora also admitted she felt "very scared" that everyone was watching and judging her every move.
"I felt devastated, it made me feel like everything I had done was going to disappear and it brought back the fear of losing everything," she admitted.
But Rita Ora drew inspiration to continue the work from the strength and perseverance of her parents, psychiatrist mother Vera and pub owner father Besnik, who left Kosovo for London because of the persecution of Albanians that began with the breakup of Yugoslavia when the singer was a baby in 1991.
"I think about my mother and my father all the time, because they worked so hard to get here, I have to support my whole family," he said.
"You can't help but blame yourself for everything, the only way to move forward is to keep going," he stressed.
“I've always tried to be myself and very real and I've never changed who I am, I don't always get it right but who does? But I feel more human, I'm just a person at the end of the day," he added.
Rita Ora has released her third album, 'You & I', which touches on falling 'so low' and losing confidence in making music, before learning to love herself and drawing strength from her husband and loved ones.
"I've spent so much time struggling to get my voice heard throughout my career in the music industry that I think I lost a lot of confidence and a lot of hope, I got really low," she said.
“And I think when you're at your lowest point you can make a choice. You can either get up and carry on, or let it eat you," he noted.
“And I got up. This album means a lot to me. It's like a diary of my last years, it's my sound and it's so representative of me and who I am today," said Rita Ora.
