Nicolas Cage says he can't do karaoke anymore after his 'punk-rock version' of 'Purple Rain' went viral: 'Karaoke's supposed to be private. It's like a prayer.'

• Nicolas Cage calls karaoke his therapy.
• But he says he's "not going to karaoke anymore" after videos of him singing "Purple Rain" went viral.

Nicolas Cage says it's not acting that's his therapy, it's karaoke.

The actor revealed this information in The Hollywood Reporter's recent actor roundtable, made up of Cage, Andrew Garfield, Jonathan Majors, Peter Dinklage, and Simon Rex.

In a moment during the conversation when the group talked about how acting, and talking about the craft, can be therapy, Cage revealed his love for karaoke and how using it as his release was taken from him a few years ago.

"For me, karaoke was like therapy until someone videotaped my punk-rock version of Prince's 'Purple Rain' and it went everywhere and I said, 'I'm not going to karaoke anymore,'" the Oscar-winning actor revealed to the group.

Cage is referring to 2019 footage of him singing the Prince hit in a raging tone on two different nights in LA karaoke bars. In both instances, footage of Cage singing went viral after being reported by TMZ.

The performances followed Cage getting married days earlier in Las Vegas to Erika Koike. But four days later he got it annulled.

At the roundtable, Garfield encouraged Cage to continue doing karaoke.

"Don't steal the gift from the world," he told Cage. "You need to keep giving."

"Well, singing is therapy, I think," Cage said. "Absolutely. Karaoke's supposed to be private. It's like a prayer."