United Kingdom, May 16 -- Lorde overcame stage fright with MDMA and psilocybin therapy.

The 'Royals' hitmaker has suffered from debilitating nerves since she was a child but underwent numerous sessions between 2022 and 2024 where she would take psychedelic drugs in a supervised setting and they left her feeling much more free and at ease with exploring new cities before her shows instead of dreading a panic attack in her hotel room.

She told Rolling Stone magazine: "I was touring without stage fright for the first time."

Freed from her fears, Lorde found she was able to connect with her audience in a new way.

She said: "I would play 'Supercut', and all of a sudden there was a hook around my guts and everyone in the room was having the...