Opening up to ASOS magazine, she has revealed how "invisible" and 'overlooked" she felt during the first few years the band was formed, which was a lot due to racism in the music industry.
"During the first couple of years of being in the band, I did feel invisible," she admitted. "I remember crying to my manager regularly, I just couldn’t seem to find my place and didn’t know why."
She continued to explain how she "didn’t feel like I had as many fans as the other girls. It was a strange feeling. I never thought that it was because I was the darkest member of the band. I felt overlooked. So I did everything to make myself more noticed, convinced I wasn’t good enough."
Leigh was advised that she had to work twice as hard as the other girls being the only black member of the band, but it was other people coming forward with their own experiences that made her understand her own feelings.
"Now I don’t feel alone because I’ve seen lots of women speak out about this," she shared. "I know there are girls of colour out there who have felt the same as me."
She added, "We have a massive problem with racism which is built into our society. It’s scary. But the more people that speak out, the more change we can start to make."