Usher's method for combating onstage fright is to colour-co-ordinate his sweets before he performs to sell-out arenas.

The BURN star, 25, finds his compulsive behaviour of dividing chocolate into mini groups - enables him to overcome any pre-performance nerves.

Usher says, "I get ten bags of M+Ms and tip them on a table.

"Then I sort them out into little piles of all the same colours. You know all the reds together, all the yellows. It takes a while, but it does the trick."

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