Doja Cat Revealed Her Borderline Personality Disorder Diagnosis And Defended Chappell Roan In A New TikTok
Doja Cat has been weighing in on a lot of celebrity happenings this week, including Timothée Chalamet’s opera and ballet scandal (which she has sense backtracked on). Now she’s standing up for Chappell Roan—and in doing so, she revealed a very big part of herself to her viewers.
She started out the TikTok by saying, “I have learned from a very young age to pretend that I like stuff, to pretend that I’m happy, to pretend that I don’t like stuff that I do to appear that everything is okay, I’ll get it done. And it caught up with me, and I think it always does for people.”
“I’m now struggling with BPD, I don’t know how long I’ve been—I mean, probably forever,” she continued. “It’s an agonizing condition, curable, thank god. I’ve been in therapy for years now, and I am so relieved and so proud of myself. I’ve made it so far and I still make mistakes, but it is like an 8-year process of curing, of treatment and healing in order to cure it.”
Doja Cat then revealed that she was opening up about this specifically because of Chappell Roan and her relationship with the press.
“I am witnessing a lot of people be upset with—and disclaimer, I’m not diagnosing Chappell Roan with BPD,” she said. “I’m saying that there’s a connection to the way that people are treating Chappell Roan for showing her discomfort or showing her unamusedness, her disdain, and I f*cking love that she does it. I love that she can be uncomfortable comfortably in front of people and protect herself and be honest.”
“I had to learn how to be honest,” she continued. “I had to learn how to be honest with myself. I lied to myself for years, for most of my life. And to see her sit there and… I love it. I love that she can do that without hurting people. She hasn’t hurt one person by being herself, and that shows that I can do the same, and to be like ‘F*ck the paparazzi’ is the best way to be. Because f*ck ’em! F*ck ’em.”
But Doja Cat wanted her fans to understand that this disdain isn’t as misplaced as it might seem, especially for people in the music industry who are forced to deal with them on a regular basis while trying to live their lives.
“There are some nuances to this,” she explained. “I think that it’s not only just paparazzi, there’s something that a lot of people don’t know about, and they assume that resellers are fans. They are not fans. Resellers are people who show up, they pose as fans, and they ask for signatures. It’s not an honest work, and so it’s harder to respect it, it’s a hustle, I can respect the hustle, but they show up in places where the artist is going to be, like airports. They’ll show up to the hotel. They’ll show up to events. And it looks like when an artist walks past them, it looks like the artist doesn’t care, right? The artist doesn’t care about their fans.”
Doja went on to explain why this might be why Chappell is viewed as cold or uncaring toward her fans:
“The artist does care about their fans, they’re aware that they’re resellers, sometimes they’re tight on time and they can’t sign stuff at the very moment that they get out of the care, and so there’s instances like that. But I gotta tell you, for people who don’t know, and I’m a person in this profession, I do this, there are people who are not fans who show up, and they want you to sign stuff, and they go and they sell it wherever.”
“The thing is, these people might need the money,” Doja continued. “Correction: They do. It’s similar to when people would sample my music and put it on Spotify and they wouldn’t get that many views but they’d get paid. I let them have it. The only thing is, if I’m not in the mood, I don’t have to. And that’s okay if I don’t. It is. “
Doja ended the tweet reminding people that Chappell Roan isn’t trying to be rude, and that at the end of the day, her actions aren’t actually hurting anyone.
“These artists aren’t just ignoring people because they’re full of themselves, and Chappell Roan is not hurting anybody, so we can put that shIt to bed?” she said. “Let her have an attitude because I would love to have one as well, and I f*cking will, hopefully, in the future.”