Becky Hill says she ‘hated’ her twenties

Becky Hill "hated every minute" of her 20s.

The 32-year-old singer, who shot to fame when she appeared on talent show The Voice, had a particularly tough time the year she turned 21 as she was raped by a "friend" and, while trying to establish herself as an artist away from her reality TV background, she found herself dropped by her record label.

She told The Guardian's Saturday magazine: "Aside from the music I was making, I hated every minute of my 20s.

"It was a decade of establishing myself as an artist, shaking off the stigma of coming from a TV show, as well as a lot of personal turbulence. In the same year, I got dropped by my label and raped by a friend.

"I was 21 and remember sitting in a writing session and telling these three men I was working with about the sexual assault that had just happened, trying to externalise some of the intensity of what I was feeling. A few hours later, I was being pulled into a meeting with my management team to be told I had no label.

"Around this time, I also met the man who would become my husband. We broke up a few years later, then got back together again. I started having success on featured tracks, but I felt like it wasn’t my success, it was the producer’s. I was always fighting to be heard and seen."

Although the Changes singer doesn't feel as successful now as she did a few years ago, she is "at peace" because she's making the music she wants to.

She said: "So far, I’m loving my 30s, but the landscape has changed for music, and I am probably not having the same level of success that I had in my 20s.

"At the start of my career, my ambition was to write songs that other people liked, whereas now I am writing songs about what I really want to say, the pressures of the job and of society.

"So I’m at peace if this new album isn’t as big as the others, because I’m proud of what I’ve made."

And Becky has also sought therapy to tackle imposter syndrome.

She said: "I’ve been in therapy since I was 22, and have done a decade of working on my internal voice, the impostor syndrome that still creeps in and is so hard to escape when you work in music.

"It’s hard to be gentle on yourself when you work in an industry that is so fickle and unpredictable. Even at the start of this year, I was panicking that my job was about to end and that I was going to have to work in McDonald’s or try to get a new qualification.

"I’ve always thought I would like to become an electrician, actually, but I know that I’d be electrocuted within the first five minutes.

"Really, I can’t do anything else apart from what I’m doing now. So I am glad I am still