SZA remembers being bullied when she was a teen.

SZA is currently enjoying a successful run with her new album “SOS,” which is expected to spend a fourth straight week at the top of the US Billboard chart TDE DIVA recalled how being tormented as a teen shaped who she is today in an interview with People.

“I was bullied because I wasn’t quiet and I was awkward at the same time,” she said. “I wasn’t this tiny sad victim, but I was more so attacked just because it was giving ‘What is wrong with you?’ energy.”

“I always thought, ‘Oh my God.’ I’ll never have the approval of anyone in life, this must be my defining factor, this must be the bottom line,” she adds.

“I realized that all the things that made me feel so lame were actually what made me into who I am,” she says. “It’s like, I didn’t go to prom because I didn’t have any friends and I had no one to go to prom with … [and now] it’s so weird that my life turned into [having] a bodyguard while traveling to parties.”

SZA continues, “All these things, if I had such a fulfilling existence and experience in high school, I would’ve felt validated to the point where I didn’t need to do anymore. [So] I just had to do more, I had to be more because I was like, ‘This experience can’t be the end of it because if it is, I am cooked.’”

“Everyone who experiences bullying, that just s**ks, but it’s going to lead you to something, it has to,” she added. “If you could hold on and just wait until high school is over because 10 years from now, I promise you, none of those people will matter.”

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