Ally Brooke Reveals She Faced ‘Mental and Verbal Abuse’ in Fifth Harmony — It ‘Was Traumatizing’

“It was a whirlwind.

So much behind the scenes, so much toxicity, so much abuse, so much about of power, so much mental abuse, verbal abuse, and it’s just horrible and to me, it’s a shame because we were so big.

I tried to keep us together as a unit.

How I felt super insecure, or how I felt let down or how I felt like I wasn’t good enough,” she added.

On the podcast, Brooke said the girls almost had to “fight for our lives” to get significant singing parts on tracks, and that she oftentimes felt “crushed” and “embarrassed” when she didn’t get good parts.

It’s a sentiment that Brooke opened up about in her book Finding Your Harmony, which she released last year.

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