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Months after making fun of those scared by the coronavirus, Doja Cat confirmed on Friday that she had been diagnosed with COVID-19.
“I have COVID,” the rapper told Capital XTRA’s breakfast program in an interview on Friday. “I honestly don’t know how this happens, but I guess I ordered some Postmates and … I don’t know how I got it, but I got it.”
The 24-year-old artist, whose songs “Say So” and “Boss Bitch” are some of the most viral songs of 2020, did not say when she became ill, but added that she had since recovered from the illness.
“I’m fine now,” he said. “It was a symptom of four days, but now I’m fine.”
In early March, when the coronavirus was spreading around the world, Doja Cat, whose real name is Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini, launched on Instagram to mock what she perceived to be unjustified hysteria.
“Bitch, I’m not afraid of a coronavirus or the damn beer version of that shit,” he said.
“I’m going to buy a crown and then I’m going to buy a crown,” he added, referring to popular beer, “because I don’t give a shit about the crown, bitch. It’s a flu!”
She said that those who were afraid of the virus were “kittens”.
“Just take Mucinex and drink water, tea and sleep, that’s all you have to do,” he said. “You are so afraid of a damn crown. Everyone is so afraid of the crown that I need a Crown.”
Not long after, she seemed to change her tone.
On March 16, Doja Cat said she was forced to cancel her scheduled tour “due to the coronavirus and associated risk.”
“Keep your health out there,” he told fans.
In May, she was among the celebrities who participated in a fundraiser for the World Health Organization, created by Shein.
Doja Cat has primarily pursued a career thanks to her popularity on TikTok, where almost all of her songs go viral and are often accompanied by an original dance challenge.
Since his Instagram comments in March, more than 145,000 Americans have died from the virus. More than 640,000 people have died worldwide.
Doja Cat told Capital XTRA that the pandemic has been taken seriously since then.
“It was good,” he said. “I stay at home.”
