JoJo decided to be celibate for 10 MONTHS after cheating on her ex-boyfriend

Jojo was celibate for nearly a year after cheating on her ex-boyfriend.

The Leave (Get Out) songstress, 29, revealed how she reevaluated intimacy in light of drunkenly stepping out on her significant other while talking to People for their latest issue.

Calling her infidelity ‘self-sabotage,’ she explained: ‘…I didn’t feel worthy of a loving, lasting relationship.’

‘I didn’t love myself. I am actively practicing self-love. It’s not just something you arrive at — I need to really work at it.’

While recording her new album Good To Know tried to figure out how to deal with co-dependency, admitting: ‘I’ve always been in a relationship with somebody, and I was delaying a really important part of becoming an adult, which is being independent.’

For now, the songstress – born Joanna Noëlle Blagden Levesque – just getting to know people at her own pace.

‘I would go out on dates, but I loved saying, “Okay, good night,”‘ she said.

For now she’s enjoying her quiet quarantine time with mom, Diana, and dog, Agape. 

After rising to fame at just 13, JoJo had plenty of demons to deal with.

She’d coped with her clinical depression, dealt with her father’s opioid addiction and triumphed through an intense lawsuit with her record label. 

‘I’ve been going to therapy since I was 18. I had more weight on my shoulders than I could bear,’ the Too Little Too Late singer said. 

‘I would talk to my therapist once a week, and now it’s kind of as needed, but it’s really nice to have that impartial and professional opinion. I’m very fortunate that I could do that.’

In addition to therapy and her prescribed medication, JoJo enriches her mental healthy through exercise yoga and journaling. 

JoJo has also tried to cultivate a more mindful relationship with drinking, which she said she used to use as an unhealthy coping mechanism.

Though she still imbibes occasionally, the artist said she no longer drinks to escape.

‘There have been periods of time where I have consciously not drank, but I’m not sober — my relationship with alcohol is different now,’ she says. ‘I don’t drink to escape.’

And though it’s taken time and practice, JoJo said she knows the road to empowerment is a daily journey.

‘It was like a banging my head against the wall until I believed it or until I actually did it,’ she said. ‘My therapist told me to act as if: like, if you don’t feel confident, act as if you are. You don’t feel like a bad b****, act as if you do — and then you do.’

JoJo’s new album Good To Know comes out at midnight on Thursday, April 30th.