Is Addison Rae leaving social media? Influencer turned singer talks about 'taking a step back'

Addison Rae is distancing herself from social media.

The TikToker-turned-songstress sat down for a guest appearance on Therapuss with Jake Shane, where she reflected on why she has been vacant online in the years since she rose to fame on TikTok.

"I felt so misunderstood," she said. "but I was sharing so much." "Sometimes you do what you need to do to get where you want to go," she continued. "I wasn't showing every part of myself, as one mostly doesn't, you know. There are elements of yourself that surely you don't share online that aren't bad — they just aren't things you're willing to share or talk about or, you know, show."

Addison Rae, who recently dropped her self-titled debut album, also revealed that she has since learned that privacy is important to her.

"I think privacy becomes really important over time," she continued. "Like, 'OK, what can I allow people access to that isn't going to hurt me? Or they're not going to use to make me feel conflicted in my own life decisions that I have to make?'"

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Addison Rae dropped her debut album just last month, and it spans 12 songs across 33 minutes in total. It was written and produced by an all-women team, and features no one but herself. Several of the singles she released as part of the album were also massive hits online, including Aquamarine and Headphones On.

During her interview, she also reflected on how much of an impact being misunderstood can have on her:

"Being misunderstood is definitely annoying and it does get on my nerves sometimes, but I think over time, I've realized that if somebody's commenting that 'I'm not this' [or] 'This is not who I am.' ... Or when I was 19 I was more authentic," she said. "I'm like, okay, well, I just moved to LA. I'm like, geez. I was from a small town, of course I didn't experience a lot of things or have the opportunity to even figure out who I was in those those ways," she continued. "Because it was life whenever you grow up in a small town."

In an April 2025 interview for Elle, she recalled putting in hours of her day into making videos, adding that it was an "intense period" of her life. But in hindsight, she was just having fun, she said:

“I wasn’t going to let being cringe and posting a million videos stop me. And now that I look back at it, I don’t feel embarrassed about anything I ever posted. I can appreciate that girl and say that was a girl who was going to make it happen, no matter what that meant doing.” “And I wasn’t doing anything harmful,” she added. “I was just having a dandy time dancing.”

The changes to her identity online didn't stop there, as with the debut of her album on June 6, she also dropped her surname, and is now simply going mononymous. Speaking with Quenlin Blackwell during a June 8 on the latter's Feeding Starving Celebrities series on YouTube, she revealed:

“I said it in an interview, I was just like, ‘Oh, I think I’ve grown past being called Addison Rae.'" “Then the album being named 'Addison' kind of was a tie-in for that," she added.

She also revealed that there is a more pragmatic reason behind her decision:

“I just am tired of also signing Addison Rae. It’s really long. I just would rather sign Addison,” she said, chuckling. “And then I was like, ‘Yeah, it just makes more sense because, like, it’s going back to the roots really.’”

Although, she did make it clear that if fans want to call her by her full name, she's not going to be upset.

“Whoever knows me as Addison Rae and knew me as Addison Rae will always know me as that,” she said.

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