Ellie Goulding was made to feel "like a sexual object"
Ellie Goulding has spoken about feeling vulnerable and "like a sexual object" at the start of her career.
Speaking to The Guardian, the singer revealed she's experienced sexual harassment from numerous music producers. "The first producer I met wanted to sleep with me," she says. "And I was like, why? I didn’t see myself as an object of desire." Goulding was 19 years old at the time.
"I wouldn’t be able to get home because I couldn’t afford it, and they would say: ‘You can stay.’ But there would always be the suggestion of something. I’d have to laugh it off – I constantly had to laugh things off."
The star also explained that music sessions would include alcohol and suggestive comments would make her feel uncomfortable. "My whole career started off with instantly being made to feel like a sexual object, and being made to feel vulnerable in those sessions. And there are so many female singers that will hear me saying that and say: 'Yeah, I can relate.'"
Goulding explains this left her feeling that being sexualised "was what one of my strengths had to be. I really was programmed into thinking that that was part of how to succeed."
She says she was fearful to ally herself with the #MeToo movement earlier. "I was a bit too scared, I thought maybe I would be judged."
Now the 33-year-old, who married Caspar Jopling during a spectacular ceremony in 2019, has returned to the music scene after five years away. Her new album, Brightest Blue, is scheduled to be released on 17th July.
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