Teyana Taylor is "proud" of her achievements in cookery school

She told ELLE magazine: "Culinary school has been amazing. I've always been in love with cooking because cooking is very therapeutic for me, and it allows and forces me to actually take a moment for myself, to just be quiet and cook.

"I'm in [school] for culinary arts, and when I'm done, I'm going to come back for pastry arts. I love to make my professors proud, [to be treated] like every other student. I'm purely graded for just me doing the work and not being judged by who I am."

She went on to add the course has been hard work and she was busy doing homework while juggling promotional duties for her latest film One Battle After Another.

Teyana added: "Culinary school is hard work, even just with my business classes, discussion forums, and my quizzes, but it makes me feel so accomplished.

"I know I'm already doing a million things, and this makes it a million and one, but I'm proud of that. I was on my way to the One Battle After Another premiere, literally doing school assignments."

In the interview, Teyana also opened up about returning to music with new album Escape Room - which was released in August - after previously declaring she was "retired" from the business.

She said: "It was tough because I said I retired, and I didn't know what was next. I was afraid, but I wasn't afraid to take the leap ...

"I recorded this album on my terms. This is the most vulnerable work I've ever done; my label gave me a lot of support and freedom to do that.

"Sometimes, you've got to just shake the table. Some people believed, and some people didn't believe in the vision I had, and that that made me go harder ...

"Would I be the creative artist that I am today if I hadn't gone through that break?"