Doechii on being bullied and struggling with mental health: ‘I realised, what do I really think is important?’

Doechii for Dazed (Image: Ib Kamara)

Rapper du jour Doechii has spoken vulnerably in a new interview about her past struggles with her mental health, revealing she was experiencing suicidal thoughts at one point in her life.

The GRAMMY winner was candid in an interview for the new issue of Dazed, on which she graces the cover, explaining that her Doechii persona was in fact born in response to bullies who had made her question her very existence.

“That’s not the life I want to live”

“I was in a position where I thought about killing myself because the bullying was so bad,” Doechii admitted. “Then I had this realisation: I’m not gonna do that, because then they’re gonna all get a chance to live and I’m gonna be the

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