Despite achieving her first Billboard No. 1 hit, pop vocalist and rapper Lizzo was in a state of depression. The 4-time Grammy winner, who released her fifth studio album Bitch last week, recounted the success of her 2017 breakout song “Truth Hurts” on the Tuesday (June 9) episode of podcast And the Writer Is… . Rather than reveling in her success at the time, around the 52-minute mark of the video below, Lizzo said she was “actually very depressed” and in a “really dark place” at the time. “I think a lot of artists, when they have their first big moment, there's always some other like, fucked up shit that happens,” Lizzo told host Ross Golan. The artist detailed the promotional “grind” that she had done “pre-COVID,” including club engagements, frequent interviews and traveling. “And then I had a lot of people around me who were kind of manipulative and I was being pulled in a lot of directions,” she continued. “It was really, really dark ‘cause I was getting no sleep.…