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Ellie Goulding runs because she thinks an apocalypse is coming

  • December 13, 2012
  • Sam Hine

Middling Popstar/Electro Goddess Ellie Goulding runs because she thinks it's good pre­par­a­tion for when the world decides to end.

The 'This Love (Will Be Your Downfall)' song­stress went into detail about her apo­ca­lypse-inspired fitness regime, noting: "I go running — so I'll be ready when the world ends. Running is hugely important in my life and has been since I was 18. I woke up one morning and decided that running should be my thing. For me, it's about more than keeping fit."

"I'm preparing myself," she continued. "As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatal­istic streak, which I've inherited from my mum."

But wait, there's more.

"I firmly believe something cata­clys­mic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes. Next year I hope to run my first marathon. Unless the world ends before I get the chance.''

We wonder if she's always had this dark turn of mind.

"I've always had a dark turn of mind. I blame my dad, who worked in a mortuary. He was obsessed with murder cases and would assemble these files that were packed with gruesome pho­to­graphs. He'd let me look at them and I'm sure that's what led to me thinking dark thoughts. At a young age I was pre­oc­cu­pied with behead­ings and things like that. I'd only have to look at a David Attenborough doc­u­ment­ary to imagine giant ants taking over the world."

Bit weird really Ellie, but we suppose in this world Anything Can Happen hahahahahah­hahahahaha haha haah­hahaha ha ha.

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