Fresh off the release of her LP, Better Mess, Ashley Zarah is continuing to share her stories and truths with a new music video for the featured single “Fakin’ It.” “Fakin’ It” is about facing the painful truth of a very uncomfortable situation, one that Zarah admits she was in denial about for a very long time. “I used to call it a physical altercation because I was convinced that’s what it was – but now I force myself to call it by its real name – it was sexual assault,” says Zarah. “I used euphemisms for a long while because it was easier to process. I didn’t have to feel the truth as much.” Recognizing that she was using denial as a survival mechanism, Zarah slowly came to realize that her mental health would suffer if she wasn’t honest with herself about holding peop...