How Tom Grennan navigated fame as an ‘egotistical 21-year-old’

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00:00 I was 21 and I had...

00:03 I didn't really feel pressure, but I had a bit of money.

00:10 And I also had the wrong people around me.

00:14 What do you mean?

00:16 I mean people who...

00:20 I don't know.

00:22 Some people took advantage of it.

00:24 Also, I took advantage of it.

00:25 So I'm not blaming them people, by the way.

00:27 Like I was probably an egotistical 21 year old who thought the sun

00:33 shines out of his *** or something like that, basically.

00:36 And I fell into, I don't know, a lot of problems.

00:43 Music was happening.

00:44 Going out was happening.

00:45 Alcohol was happening.

00:47 And I was consumed by all this.

00:50 So I moved home and that was the best thing for me.

00:54 And now my coping mechanisms for...

00:57 I hate the word calling myself a fan.

01:00 Yeah.

01:01 I'm not, you know what I mean?

01:02 I still get the training and I still do normal things.

01:07 You know what I mean?

01:07 Just people come and say hello and I sound, but now it's like

01:12 completely different.

01:13 Like I need routine in my day-to-day just to get myself on a level.

01:18 I need exercise.

01:21 I need good eight hours sleep.

01:24 Like I sound boring, but like I feel like to do this job at a

01:29 10 out of 10, you need to be an athlete.

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