AceShowbiz - Normani Kordei had bittersweet feelings about being a member of Fifth Harmony. While she's "grateful" for her experience with the girl group, the "Wild Side" songstress admitted there were times when she felt "inadequate."

The 28-year-old made the honest confession in an interview with Rolling Stone published Wednesday, June 5. "I'm grateful for all of it, even the moments where I might've felt inadequate or less than," she said. "It definitely has a lot to do with why I am the way that I am."

"It definitely took a toll on my confidence," she added. "Would I do some things differently or wish that some things were done differently? Of course, but I also don't want to sit here and make it sound like it wasn't part of my story."

Normani went solo after Fifth Harmony disbanded in 2018. The musician has previously been open about the racism she experienced when so-called fans pitted her against her bandmates such as Ally Brooke, Dinah Jane, Lauren Jauregui and Camila Cabello.

"We were babies," she said now of her former groupmates. "We were so innocent and I think that is the struggle, to your point, of just us having to face reality under very unrealistic circumstances. I always say we did the very best we could with what we had, so that I'm proud of."

"There's so much that I don't even remember because I suppressed it," Normani, who will release her debut solo album "Dopamine" on June 14, further elaborated. "That's just my way of protecting myself from having to deal with everything. But what I do remember is it wasn’t all bad. Like yeah, we struggled, but it was also really beautiful in what we accomplished together."