Perrie Edwards makes music industry plea after Liam Payne’s death

Perrie Edwards calls on music industry to look after artists after Liam Payne's deathSource: Fearne Cotton's Happy Place

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00:00Weirdly, I bring my therapist with me, so I'm on a journey with my anxiety at the minute

00:05and I have my therapist with me.

00:07We were talking about the whole situation and I think it's really important for people

00:12to look at things, humans, like humans, and say, why did they get to this place?

00:19Why are they struggling so much?

00:20What is it that causes them to feel this way in the public eye?

00:23And I don't think there's enough consequences for people online.

00:26I don't think there's enough consequences.

00:27I don't think people in this industry are looked after enough.

00:30I really don't.

00:31Because it's like they're put on a pedestal, they get brought up and they're like this

00:35God or this amazing person and then everybody jumps on this bandwagon of like, yeah, let's

00:40tear them down.

00:41And it's like a fun thing to do.

00:42It's not fun.

00:43Like these people are human, like they bleed the same, they're the same as you and whoever's

00:47commenting on all these things.

00:48And I just think like, what, like one, what do we do to change it?

00:53Like, can we make rules with social media and stop all this?

00:58It's bullying, isn't it?

00:59It's like, it's so savage.

01:01Like I can't bear it.

01:02I don't look at it because it's very easy to fall into that hole where you're reading

01:07nothing but negative, awful things and you're like, what am I doing so wrong?

01:12Like why?

01:13What is it?

01:14And it's just bizarre, but it's freedom of speech.

01:16But then at the same time, they're hurting people.

01:17So it's really, I think it's a really hard thing.

01:21And I think like you said, success is completely different to fame.

01:25And I think success is lovely.

01:27It's joyful.

01:28It's like you're doing what you love and you're benefiting from it.

01:30And you're like, you get all these lovely things and it feels great.

01:33But then the fame is like the awful side of it.

01:36It's like the dark side of it that I think people don't really see.

01:39And yeah, I was the same.

01:40I was like, I want to be a famous pop star.

01:42I want to sign autographs and everybody know who I am and I want to be a household name.

01:46But you don't think of the things that come with that.

01:49And it's hard.

01:50It's really intense.