India, July 2 -- Singer Manon Bannerman took a hiatus from the Los Angeles-based girl group KATSEYE in February this year to "focus on her health and well-being". The same month, she reportedly liked a social media post indicating that she'd faced mistreatment by the music industry as a Black woman. The group has finally opened up whether Manon's hiatus was due to the racial discrimination. The current members of KATSEYE - Sophia Laforteza, Lara Raj, Daniela Avanzini, Yoonchae and Megan Skiendiel - recently shared that they have been in touch with Manon "here and there" since she went on break. Addressing the race issue, Sophia said, "We can definitely say that in our situation, in no way was it about race. That goes against everything that we stand for." "The safest space that we had was within the six of us," Lara told Vanity Fair, dismissing rumours of a rift within the band: "People have no idea what goes on... It's nothing but love between us." In an interview last month, Sophia had shared that it's no one's place to rush Manon out of her break, but whenever she decides to return, the door will "always be open".htc...