Pixie Lott has revealed her West End debut left her feeling a complete mess, struggling to function and suffering panic attacks. The pop favourite, 33, who became a household name at 18 thanks to 2009 debut Turn It Up, starred as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 2016. But after almost a year of eight performances a week, she says the experience of portraying her character’s descent into chaos nearly broke her.
Pixie has now poured the painful emotions she went through into a track on her fourth studio album, Encino – confessing that writing and recording the song was like a therapy session. She said: “I had a really hard time after Breakfast at Tiffany’s. I was crying my eyes out every night.
It wasn’t good for my brain. It felt like it changed the makeup of my brain. “So by the time it ended I was a completely broken person – just a complete mess.
I didn’t know what was going on, I couldn’t even function. It was the weirdest thing. Everything was scary, everything was confusing, I had no grounding.
My breathing was tight every day. “Like panic attacks, which was really scary. And I was navigating life thinking, ‘This is the new normal now’ – not knowing what this was and just trying to put one foot in front of the other.
I don’t know exactly how long I was at the crux of that, feeling really bad. But I know it took a couple of years to get myself back again.” Pixie, born Victoria Louise Lott in Bromley, South London, said she only .
