British singer Mae Stephens says making music 'saved her life'

British singer Mae Stephens has said that making music saved her life and revealed that she almost gave it up, before one of her songs went viral on TikTok. Talking to the PA news agency ahead of her performance at British Summer Time (BST) Hyde Park festival at the weekend she said: “I started song writing as a coping mechanism." Stephens, who will be performing at British Summer Time (BST) Hyde Park festival at the weekend, started to write music at the age of 12 as a way to deal with the stresses of bullying.