Cat Burns, 26, is a south London singer-songwriter. A former Brit school student, she went from busking on Southbank to amassing half a million followers on TikTok during lockdown after her song “Go” went viral on the platform. She is now a triple-platinum-selling artist with three Brit Award nominations and a Mercury Prize nomination. Last year, she earned millions of new fans on the BBC’s Celebrity Traitors. Burns is in a relationship with Welsh make-up artist and influencer Sarah New, and is now preparing for her upcoming UK and Ireland tour.
Here, she looks back at the moments that shaped her – from being diagnosed with autism and ADHD, to coming out to her family during lockdown.
I never really struggled with all the lying on Traitors. I was very aware that it was a game and a show that we were all filming. The hard part was the social aspect of being around people you don’t know for a really long period of time, having to mask, converse, and think of things to say.
I thrived off the rules of the show – knowing what I could and couldn’t do was great for my neurodivergency. But naturally being away from home and little things like the lighting or the set I found more overwhelming than other people. Everybody really wanted to be friends with each other and got along really well – so much so that we thought, how are they going to make a show out of this? It was a big moment when Lucy [Beaumont] found out I was a traitor, she was so shocked. We were really close. She was definitely a person I could lean on. I also got along really well with Alan Carr.
Getting diagnosed with ADHD at 21 and autism at 23 helped me make sense of my life. In school, I definitely struggled with focusing and keeping still. I was smart, but I really struggled to retain information in the same way other people did. There were also subtle things like when it came to socialising with people I had my select group of friends, and didn’t really vary much from that.
My music career directly clashes with my neurodivergency, because it’s a very public-facing role and very social, and those are the main places where I struggle. It was what pushed me to seek the diagnoses – I was struggling with a lot of things that came with being an artist. At the same time, making music and writing lyrics has helped me be able to explain how my brain works a lot more.
Filming The Traitors is one of the biggest pinch-me moments of my career. Also performing at the Brit Awards was a great full-circle moment for me – from attending the Brit school as a student and then being able to be on the other side performing and looking down at the pit where I was only seven years before.
Coming out to my family has let me be my whole self authentically. It happened in lockdown. I had a lot of time to think, sit with myself and think about feelings I had ignored up to that point. On social media, everyone was coming together and sharing their experiences of figuring out their sexuality. I showed my mum videos of people coming out to gauge her response. After the third time, she was like, “Why do you keep showing me these videos? Is there something that you’d like to tell me?” When I told her, and my sister, they were super supportive. I feel lucky to have a really supportive family – to come from a bed of security knowing you’re loved unconditionally, and able to go out into the world and flourish from there.
Women loving women relationships are so lovely. There is such a deep, strong bond that is similar to what you have with your girl best friends, but with a romantic layer on top. I now feel free to be able to write songs about my world, which is loving women and being able to put genders into my song lyrics, rather than making it really ambiguous for the sake of people not knowing my sexuality.
Never make any decisions based on desperation – this is the best financial advice my mum taught me. To make sure you have enough saved that you can look at your account and know you’ve got yourself sorted for at least a few months, and that you’re never in the position to have to do absolutely anything that’s asked of you because you’re desperate.
Letting go of people-pleasing has been really freeing for me. It’s OK to say no. ‘No is a complete sentence’ is the best piece of advice I’ve ever been given.
Cat Burns has partnered with Sheba to launch its new ‘Ignored to Adored’ programme, designed to help pet parents build stronger connections with their cats
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