For Nicole Scherzinger, life in the Pussycat Dolls was not purr joy.
Despite taking center stage with hits like “Don’t Cha” and “When I Grow Up,” the singer reflected on the “overwhelming experience” as the group’s frontwoman.
“I’m really proud of the music that the Dolls made, and I’m very proud of the little mark that we made with our group,” Scherzinger told the U.K. newspaper The Times in an interview published June 27. “But it was very difficult, because I was really learning about myself along the way.”
And she attributes a lot of the stress from that era to the grueling schedule she and her bandmates—which included Melody Thornton, Carmit Bachar, Ashley Roberts, Jessica Sutta and Kimberly Wyatt—endured.
“It was such a difficult time, struggling and battling your own demons and issues and always being on the road, and they never allowed sleep in our schedule,” Scherzinger explained. “I mean, it was just a recipe for disaster, to be honest with you.”
