Halsey has shared a troubling experience involving a “powerful” music executive who violated her privacy.
“I was out with this executive, a really influential figure in the music industry. It was a celebratory atmosphere, and we were engaging in a lot of industry discussions,” Halsey recounted on “Call Her Daddy” with Alex Cooper. “I didn’t feel weird about it at all. I never felt unsafe or anything.”
After taking a photo together, the executive asked to use her phone to send the picture to himself for his niece.
When Halsey stepped away to use the bathroom, the executive took advantage of her unlocked phone and, upon her return, was found scrolling through photos of her nude body.
“I saw he was going through my nudes on my phone,” they recalled. “I was just frozen…I didn’t even know what to do. I was like, ‘Did I just imagine that? Was that an accident?’ I was thinking, ‘Did the phone scroll up? What the heck just happened?’”
Halsey expressed her concern that the executive might have sent the nude photos to himself. “Did he text them to himself and then delete the messages? I don’t even know where these are now.”
This unsettling incident also acted as a wake-up call for her.
Although the singer, who recently released her fifth studio album, “The Great Impersonator,” entered the situation feeling like “one of the big players,” she left feeling completely diminished.
“And when that happened, in that moment, I was like, ‘You’re nothing. You’re nothing. You’ll always be nothing,’” she recalled.
“You’re still just that fucking girl who’s getting taken advantage of, or like men are talking about you behind your back, or you’re some sort of collateral. I was like, ‘You’re nothing.’ It was so demoralizing.”
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