With her victory in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2010, Lena Meyer-Landrut became famous literally overnight. The 19-year-old knew how to protect her private life from the enormous public interest right from the start. To this day, she only gives very little information about her personal life situation.
It is all the more astonishing how openly the singer now talks about her personal problems in an interview with the moderator Miriam Audrey Hannah on the radio show “Music Made In Germany”. The program will not be broadcast until Sunday from 4 p.m. on Sener RPR1, but the interview is already available as a podcast.
In it, Meyer-Landrut gives open-hearted insights into her inner life and her mental state. Self-care is very important to her: “This healthy egoism, which you have to learn to live, ensures that you simply have more strength and more power and don’t constantly have the ‘burn-out feeling’ hovering over you.”
A rethink is required, says the singer. She herself had canceled an evening appointment the day before because she was at the end. “I was really screwed,” puts it the “Satellite” singer. She justified her rejection as follows: “I’m just being honest with you now. I could come, but I have the feeling that I’m about to cross a line and I don’t think it would do me any good physically to do it now make.” She doesn’t do drugs that push her up. “I’m sober and I just have my body feeling that says: Stop!”
Health comes first, so she had to learn to say no sometimes. Her advice to the audience: “We just have to take care of ourselves so that we don’t go crazy and everyone gets really sick.”
Sources: RPR1, Podcast “Musicmadeingermany”
