United Kingdom, March 12 -- Doja Cat has backtracked her remarks criticising Timothee Chalamet after admitting she was "virtue signalling" and "doesn't know anything" about opera or ballet.

The 30-year-old rapper hit out at the Marty Supreme actor after he claimed "no one cares" about the art forms but she has now deleted her original video because she only spoke out to "feel like [she was] part of something" and has never been to see either.

Doja had said in her original video: "By the way, opera is 400 years old and ballet is 500 years old. Somebody named Timothee Chalamet, had the nerve, big guy by the way, had the nerve, on camera [to say] that nobody cares about it.

"I'm pretty sure that if you went to an opera theatre right now, ...