Rita Ora covers the July issue of Marie Claire to promote her role in Southpaw. This is the boxing movie where Jake Gyllenhaal buffed up his bod and started his Oscar campaign early by talking about the power of the moon on the cover of Esquire. Harvey Weinstein’s producing, so no wonder both Jake and Rita received prominent magazine features this month. Harvey previously described Rita’s performance as “breathtaking.” We’ll see how this plays out. Rita recently played Christian Grey’s sister for about 30 seconds, so no one really knows whether she can act. Maybe she’s better at acting than being a pop star. Here are some excerpts:

She used to DJ as a teen and pretend to be at sleepovers: “I would rip my T-shirts and be really punk and not clean. And I would have blonde hair, really dark eyebrows, red lipstick, lots of fake rings that made my fingers go green. I wouldn’t be smelling that great … But me and my friends, we were really, like, rebel-y. I feel like I lived a lot when I shouldn’t have.”

On love: “I’m afraid of being alone … I’m not afraid to admit that, you know. I’m not embarrassed to admit that. I just hope it’s not a never-ending cycle. Sometimes love just makes you feel crazy. And that feeling that we have as girls, just to have that feeling, even for five seconds, it’s like crack. I mean, dont compare it to that, but you know what I mean. It’s like comfort eating.”

On the Calvin Harris split: “There was a reason why I split up with him. And there was a reason why I’m at this point in my life where I feel like I have so much musical freedom, and I don’t have to explain myself to anybody… It was more of a thing where I was in awe. I was at that point in my relationship where I felt he could do no wrong. I thought he had my back and that he’d never steer me wrong. But then ‘I Will Never Let You Down’ came out, and everything started to go a bit weird. I don’t know if it was because business was mixed with personal or what.”

[From Marie Claire]

Of course Rita talked about Calvin during this interview (again). And why not? American audiences don’t know Rita very well, but we did hear about that messy breakup. Rita says, “there was a reason” for the breakup, but she’s only echoing Calvin’s own words with less profanity.

I do believe Rita when she says she’s hooked on love and afraid to be alone. Why else would anyone date Ricky Hilfiger? Rita freely admits to not being able to stay single for a moment. At least she’s being honest.

Photos courtesy of Beau Grealy/Marie Claire & Fame/Flynet