Janelle Monáe has opened up about feeling ‘fearful’ of medicine rising up.
Throughout an in-depth interview with Rolling Stone printed on Monday, the 37-year-old – who identifies as non-binary and makes use of they/them or she/her pronouns – recalled how each of her mother and father struggled with habit when she was youthful.
Accordingly, Janelle was cautious of medicine for a very long time, however determined to experiment with marijuana and magic mushrooms in recent times.
“I grew up afraid of marijuana as a result of I had mother and father who had been addicts,” she stated. “They might all the time say, ‘Weed is the gateway drug to being a crackhead’ and I grew up with that in my thoughts and coronary heart.”
Janelle additionally famous that she began smoking weed in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic as technique of combatting “nervousness assaults”.
“I used to be like, ‘We’re in the midst of a pandemic. I am not on the street, let me check out weed,'” the star continued, earlier than noting how they later sought out remedy and now work with an “emotional assist coach”.
Janelle is about to launch her new album, The Age of Pleasure, on 9 June.
