Lorde opened up about curing her stage fright using MDMA (a.k.a. ecstasy) during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Tuesday night.
Lorde said that she had “truly the most horrific stage fright” that dated back to doing community theatre as a child. When Colbert asked how she got past it, Lorde said “Well, it’s MDMA therapy. Truly, like, changed the game on my stage fright.”
She added, "You hold on to a response like stage fright for reasons that no amount of talk therapy or brain use could get at. But when you bypass that and get to the body, something shifts. And that totally happened for me."