Former Fifth Harmony Camila Cabello’s split from the group has been anything but ‘harmonious’.

In a brand new interview with Billboard Camila opens up about why she left the group.

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She said, “The easiest route would be to shut my mouth, sing the songs, wear the clothes and keep going, you know? I mean, [we were] at the peak of our career. It’s definitely not the safe option…I have it in my DNA. The way my mom raised me, it has always been: Don’t settle. Jump and hope you grow wings on the way down.”

Camila took issue with singing other people’s words and felt that it just didn’t feel right, “I was always super open [that] I couldn’t just sing other people’s words and be totally happy with that. You have to follow and honor that inner voice. I always encouraged the girls to do the same.”

She admits that that caused a lot of tension within the group, “I think that in a group there is always going to be tension, whether it’s because of this thing or [another] thing. Obviously, I think that rocked the boat.”

 

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Camila says she’s tried to reach out to Ally Brooke, Normani Kordei, Dinah Jane and Lauren Jauregui but that they haven’t responded to her messages yet, “I did [reach out], yeah. I don’t want to get into the details of that, because it was really intense and it’s hard for me to talk about. It makes me sad…I hoped that it would be a peaceful turning of the page and we would root for each other. But I only got love for them.”

How did Camila deal with the breakup? She spent time with her loved ones, “I went to the beach a lot. I listened only to Latin music. It reminds me of where I come from and that this [conflict] doesn’t have to be World War III…In Cuba, people are literally making rafts out of tires and sticks, throwing themselves into the ocean to find opportunity. That’s real s**t. Not this.”

Camila understands that people will try and pin her against the ladies and judge and compare their successes (ala Beyonce/Destiny’s Child, Justin Timberlake/*NSYNC) but she hopes that that won’t be the case, “I know people will try and turn this into, ‘Is she going to be more successful outside the group?’ To me, if I’m in the studio every day and I’m growing as an artist and I’m speaking from my heart, that’s success. The results don’t matter. I mean, isn’t that the goal?”

Camila recently teamed up with rapper Machine Gun Kelly on his single, ‘Bad Things’ and just yesterday DJ/producer Cashmere Cat released his collaboration with her, ‘Love Incredible’. Check out both below!

Check out more from Camila’s Billboard interview HERE.

 

 

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