Leigh-Anne has clapped back at a social media user who tried to pit her against former Little Mix bandmate JADE by posting a screenshot allegedly comparing their solo album streams.
The X user captioned the figures with a dig claiming JADE’s success came from being a “positive encouraging role model” while branding Leigh-Anne “a flop that loves drama”.
The singer wasn’t having it. In a sharp, tongue-in-cheek reply, Leigh-Anne said she normally ignores trolls because she’s “too busy being a mum, a wife and just being iconic”, before leaning all the way into the joke.
She wrote: “As I sit here in my mansion by the fire, lapping up the fact that I’ve broken records, defied expectations, sold millions of records worldwide… and helped define an entire era of British pop music, I can’t help but smile.”
Leigh-Anne went on to remind her critics that her career spans 15 years, from Little Mix’s chart-dominating run to her own solo work, adding: “A successful solo career and still making history. I’m LEGACY status. A daily streaming figure could never define that.”
Her response quickly went viral, with fans praising her for shutting down the comparison and refusing to be dragged into drama between the former bandmates. Leigh-Anne released her debut solo album My Ego Told Me To earlier this year, while Jade’s THAT’S SHOWBIZ BABY! arrived in September.
Both singers have repeatedly said they support each other’s solo ventures, but that hasn’t stopped pockets of social media from trying to stir rivalry.
Leigh-Anne has already called out the manufactured drama people project onto the Little Mix members.
She told A Book Of magazine: “Me and the girls are so close. We genuinely love and support one another, so it’s always strange seeing people create competition where there isn’t any. Some people get so intense and say really vile things to each other, and I just don’t understand it.”
