Yungblud says his romance with Halsey allowed him to “finally put [his] wall of anger down”.
Yungblud
The ‘Cotton Candy’ hitmaker recently admitted that his split from the 25-year-old singer - whom he dated last year - was his first real “heartbreak”, and has now said the relationship “completely changed [his] world”, despite leaving him “f****** heartbroken” at the end.
He said: “I grew up in quite a violent home. My parents used to fight a lot and sometimes physically. And I was always loved by them, they always loved us but they used to fight each other. And I was like, ‘If that's love, I don't want any f****** part of it.’ But then I met someone who completely changed my world inside out and upside down and made me go, ‘Oh my God, this is what it feels like to be loved. This is insane.’
“And that didn't end well, and I got my f****** heartbroken, but f***, it felt good. I could finally put my wall of anger down. No one's going to prepare you for love. No one's going to prepare you for heartbreak.”
And Yungblud - whose real name is Dominic Harrison - says his “anger” came from being scared to show his emotions.
He added: “I think I was so angry at the start because my insecurity was a front to actually not have to show my heart. I showed my rage so I didn't have to show my emotions.”
The ‘Weird!’ singer’s romance with Halsey started and ended as the musician was having one of the biggest years of his career, and Yungblud has admitted he couldn’t understand why he felt “depressed” by the split when so much was coming his way at the same time.
He told People magazine: “I had the weirdest 18 months of my life. Nearly lost my mum in a car accident, which was crazy. We got really big, really quickly all over the world. There were paparazzi outside our house, we were f****** selling out shows everywhere. The DMs kept growing and getting more intense every day.
“I fell in love, I fell head over heels and then I experienced heartbreak and it was all over the f****** papers and all over the internet. Everyone was asking me every day why we broke up.
“I was touring the world. I was making money. I was loving it, but I was still depressed and didn't know why, and everything just felt weird. And weird, weird, weird."