Singers Who Have Struggled With Mental Health Issues
These 10 stars have opened up about their mental health issues. Halsey even going so far as to confessing on suicidal thoughts, Camilla Cabello talking about OCD and more. Read on to see what each singing star has said about their mental health.
This mental health awareness month, a number of celebs spoke about the their struggles and raised money for various charities.
1. Adele: “My knowledge of postpartum — or post-natal, as we call it in England — is that you don’t want to be with your child; you’re worried you might hurt your child; you’re worried you weren’t doing a good job. But I was obsessed with my child. I felt very inadequate; I felt like I’d made the worst decision of my life. … It can come in many different forms.” (Photo by Victor Chavez/Getty Images)
2. Big Sean: “I never really took the time out to nurture myself, to take care of myself. It took me a lot of depression having a lot of anxiety to realize something was off. I’ve been getting myself together, getting my mind right. So I have been taking better care of myself.” (Photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage)
3. Ariana Grande: “I’ve always had anxiety. I’ve never really spoken about it because I thought everyone had it, but when I got home from tour it was the most severe I think it’s ever been.” (Photo by David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
4. Billie Eilish: “I was so unhappy last year … I was so unhappy and I was so, like, joyless. I didn’t ever think I would be happy again, ever. I don’t want to be too dark, but I genuinely didn’t think I would, like, make it to, like, 17.” (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC)
5. Camilla Cabello: “OCD is weird. I laugh about it now. … Everybody has different ways of handling stress. And, for me, if I get really stressed about something, I’ll start to have the same thought over and over again, and no matter how many times I get to the resolution, I feel like something bad is about to happen if I don’t keep thinking about it.” (Photo by Ollie Millington/Redferns)
6. Charlie XCX: “[I go into] my thoughts and feelings about my mental state and what life is supposed to be as an artist, my depression, and my insecurities. I’m being more honest than ever before. It’s been very therapeutic.” (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
7. Ed Sheeran: “I have social anxiety. I hate large groups of people, which is ironic, because I play shows for a living. But I just feel claustrophobic and don’t like being around too many people.” (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Apple Music)
8. Demi Lovato: “I had no idea that I was even bipolar until I went into treatment. I was actually manic a lot of the times that I would take on workloads, and I would say, ‘Yes, I can do this, I can do this, I can do this.’ I was conquering the world, but then I would come crashing down, and I would be more depressed than ever.” (Photo by Simone Joyner/Getty Images)
9. Janet Jackson: “I struggled with depression. The struggle was intense … Low self-esteem might be rooted in childhood feelings of inferiority. It could relate to failing to meet impossibly high standards. And of course there are always the societal issues of racism and sexism.” (Photo by James Devaney/GC Images)
10. Halsey: “I had tried to kill myself. I was an adolescent; I didn’t know what I was doing. Because I was 17, I was still in a children’s ward, which was terrifying.”(Photo by Emma McIntyre/AMA2019/Getty Images for dcp)
By: Nupur Saraswat
