For Nicole Scherzinger, life-style in the Pussycat Dolls was not purr pleasure.

Irrespective of utilizing middle phase with hits like “Don’t Cha” and “When I Increase Up,” the singer mirrored on the “overwhelming experience” as the group’s frontwoman.

“I’m genuinely happy of the songs that the Dolls built, and I’m quite happy of the minimal mark that we produced with our group,” Scherzinger told the U.K. newspaper The Instances in an job interview released June 27. “But it was rather difficult, simply because I was seriously mastering about myself alongside the way.”

And she traits a significant quantity of the stress from that era to the grueling strategy she and her bandmates—which integrated Melody Thornton, Carmit Bachar, Ashley Roberts, Jessica Sutta and Kimberly Wyatt—endured.

“It was this kind of a tough time, battling and battling your individual demons and concerns and constantly currently being on the street, and they in no way permitted sleep in our timetable,” Scherzinger spelled out. “I imply, it was just a recipe for catastrophe, to be straightforward with you.”