In doing so, Jewel also shared some of her own harrowing experiences with stalkers.
I went gray overnight when I was 21 years old, with my first stalker.
It was so scary.
Jewel and Chappell Roan.Taylor Hill/Getty; Emma McIntyre/Getty
This person was leaving fire bombs outside my house.
I was getting death threats saying I would be shot from the stage.
I’ve had hundreds of stalkers in my career, and it’s not okay.
It made me step back from my own career.
I quit afterSpirit, after ‘Hands,’ because it was just too much."
“That was so nice.
It made me feel so safe.
I could choose to take a picture safely.”
I remember a guy calling me a bitch, yelling at me through the airport, ‘Fing bitch!
You think you’re all that?’
We shouldnt make people feel unsafe."
“Im proud of what youre doing,” she said.
“I hope you all know that everybody is worthy of compassion.
Even if you’re rich.
Even if you’re famous.”
“I want to be an artist for a very very long time,” she wrote.
like stop touching me.
like stop being weird to my family and friends.
just stop assuming things about me.
There is always more to the story.
I am scared and tired."
