United Kingdom, Dec. 12 -- Tate McRae has felt overwhelmed by the scrutiny she's faced.

The 22-year-old pop star split from The Kid Laroi in July after about a year of dating, and Tate admits that she struggled to cope with the attention that subsequently came her way.

She told Rolling Stone magazine: "It was really scary and overwhelming, I would never talk that way, even about my friends' lives. I didn't realise how much it would affect me, the public knowing my private life - because no one knows the full story of anything, ever.

"I also hate people painting a situation that's worse than it is. But what I've had to realise is that he's going to write songs and I'm going to write songs, and that's our way of expressing ourselves. Tha...