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Lana Del Reyis embarking on an indefinite social media cleanse.
The six-time Grammy Award nominee, 36, announced in an Instagram video Saturday that she’s deactivating her social media accounts as she focuses on “some different endeavors” while bidding farewell to her 20.7 million followers and thanking them for their support.
“On the record,” she wrote in the caption before following through with deleting her accounts on Sunday.
“Hi guys, I just wanted to let you know that tomorrow, we are going to be deactivating our social media accounts, my social media accounts,” Del Rey started in the black-and-white clip. “And that is simply because I have so many other interests and other jobs I’m doing that require privacy and transparency.”
She added that she’s still working on her upcoming eighth studio albumBlue Banisters, as well as some more spoken word albums and short poetry books. “I’m still present and I love what I do,” Del Rey noted. “And I’m absolutely here for the music, and I’m also just going on some different endeavors.”
Lana Del Rey.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
“For right now, I think I’m going to just keep my circle a little bit closer and continue to develop some other skills and interests. Again, I’m always here making lots of records, and in the meantime, living life. So, I’ve really enjoyed sharing all these small tidbits with you, and I’m really blessed. So, thank you and… signing off,” she concluded, throwing up a peace sign.
TheChemtrails Over the Country Clubartist officially parted ways with her Instagram and Twitter accounts at approximately 3:30 p.m. EST on Sunday. The social media hiatus comes after she found herself shrouded in controversy several times in the past year-and-a-half.
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Additionally, she came under fire that month for saying thatDonald Trump’s presidency “needed to happen,” before claiming that her words were taken “out of context,” adding: “Trump is so significantly impaired that he may not know what he was doing due to his significant lack of empathy and the wider ranging problem is the issue of sociopathy and narcissism in America.”
Del Rey wrote earlier this month on Instagram that the backlash she’s faced has forced her to “dig deep” onBlue Banisters. “As much as the ongoing criticism has been trying, itat least has pushed meto explore my own family tree, to dig deep, and to continue to exhibit the fact that God only cares about how I move through the world,” she wrote.
source: people.com
