Stars Who've Been Open About Their Mental Health Struggles

Celebrity By TooFab Staff | 5/1/2018 9:12 AM PT

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From Adele to Shawn Mendes, here are celebrities who have spoken out about their struggles with mental health.

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Adele has spoken candidly about her struggles with anxiety, depression and panic attacks, revealing to Oprah in November 2021 that she had the "most terrifying anxiety attacks" after her divorce. "They paralyzed me completely and made me so confused because I wouldn’t be able to have any control over my body," she shared. "But I was aware of that happening because it was kind of still very much there while my whole body was just, like, on another planet, it felt like."

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Selena Gomez has been open over the years about her mental health struggles, including battles with anxiety and depression. She shared in April 2020 that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. In addition, the actress is also an advocate for mental health awareness through her cosmetics brand Rare Beauty.

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Singer Camila Cabello suffers from anxiety. The pop star revealed back in April that she struggled with her mental health while creating her third studio album "Familia." "I was cripplingly anxious and was in the worst mental health state ever," she told "PEOPLE (The TV Show!)" "And then I took a break at the beginning of the pandemic. I started doing therapy [and] trying to feel better."

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Lady Gaga has been open about her mental health struggles, including battles with depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and self-harm. "It's a real thing to feel like there is a black cloud that is following you wherever you go, telling you that you are worthless and should die," she told Oprah Winfrey during a 2020 interview on Prince Harry and Oprah's Apple TV+ docuseries, "The Me You Can't See." Gaga also co-founded the Born This Way Foundation, which supports the wellness and mental health of young people.

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Shawn Mendes has been candid with fans about his struggles with anxiety. In an interview with GQ in October 2021, the singer opened up about a "really dark time" in his mental health journey, saying, “I had so much anxiety that I actually couldn’t sing anymore. It was all in my throat, which a lot of men experience. ... I couldn't sing anymore, and I always had a thing about quitting. I didn’t want to quit."

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Demi Lovato has suffered from eating disorders, self-harm, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as well as drug and alcohol addiction. "The problem with mental illness is people don't look at it as a physical illness. When you think about it, the brain is actually the most complex organ in your body. We need to treat it like a physical illness and take it seriously," they said, addressing the National Council for Behavioral Health in Washington in 2015.

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Over the years, Billie Eilish has spoken out about her struggles with body dysmorphia, depression, anxiety, self-harm and Tourette syndrome. The Grammy winner most recently opened up about her experience with Tourette's while appearing on David Letterman's "My Guest Needs No Introduction," explaining that her tics usually occur when she's off stage and in her downtime. "These are things you would never notice if you’re having a conversation with me, but for me, they’re very exhausting," she said.

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Ryan Reynolds has spoken publicly about his battle with anxiety, which he said he's experienced for his "whole life." Speaking to WSJ Magazine in October 2021, the actor said, "I tend to pave over anxiety with work and, to a lesser extent, achievement. You want to tick boxes sometimes. So these days, my goal is to be as present as I can and not just tick a box just to do it. I'm fully embracing and living that right now. It's been amazing."

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Lisa Rinna's daughter, Delilah Belle Hamlin, has suffered from panic attacks, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). In November 2021, the model detailed a secret health battle, which included a litany of medical issues. Hamlin shared that at one point she was "overprescribed" Xanax and became "dependent" on the drug. She claimed that she was also put on the beta-blocker propranolol and "overdosed" on it after taking it with Benadryl at the same time. "I ended up in the hospital." In February 2022, Hamlin celebrated six months of sobriety following the accidental overdose.

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Lizzo has shared that she suffers from anxiety and depression. While speaking to Variety in February 2022, the singer opened up about how fame has impacted her mental health. "Fame happens to you, and it's more of an observation of you. People become famous, and it's like—my DNA didn't change. Nothing changed about me," she explained. "My anxiety didn't go away. My depression didn't go away. The things that I love didn't go away. I'm still myself. But the way y'all look at me and perceive me has changed. It's a very weird, kind of formless thing."

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Chrissy Teigen revealed she suffered from postpartum depression following the birth of her daughter, Luna, in 2016. Last July, the cookbook author told her Instagram followers that she was in a "depressed" headspace and felt like "utter s--- as she discussed being a part of a "cancel club" in the wake of her cyberbullying scandal.

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Pete Davidson has spoken publicly about his borderline personality disorder (BPD) diagnosis. While speaking with Glenn Close for Variety's "Actors on Actors" in January 2021, the comedian admitted that he felt some relief when he was diagnosed with BPD in 2017. "I got diagnosed with BPD a few years ago, and I was always just so confused all the time, and just thought something was wrong, and didn’t know how to deal with it. Then, when somebody finally tells you, the weight of the world feels lifted off your shoulders. You feel so much better.”

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Kendall Jenner has spoken publicly about her years-long struggles with anxiety. In a conversation with psychologist Dr. Ramani Durvasula for Vogue's "Open Minded" video series in May 2021, the model opened up about her journey with anxiety, including the physical symptoms she's experienced since she was young. "Sometimes I think I'm dying," she revealed. "Sometimes parts of my body will go numb. It can be really intense and scary."

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Bella Hadid has been candid with fans about her struggles with depression and anxiety. In an interview with WSJ Magazine in January 2022, the model detailed her "excruciating and debilitating" mental health struggles and also shared why she decided to post photos of herself crying the prior November. I would just be in excruciating and debilitating mental and physical pain, and I didn't know why. That was over the past three years. ... [When I posted them] it was to make sure that anybody that was feeling that way knew it was OK to feel that way," she shared. "Even though on Instagram things look so beautiful, at the end of the day, we are all cut from the same cloth. I felt like it was just good for me to be able to speak my truth and at some point I wasn't able to post nice pretty pictures anymore. I was over it."

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Lili Reinhart has been very open about her battles with depression, anxiety and body dysmorphia. Speaking about her years-long struggle with depression on her Instagram Stories in 2021, the "Riverdale" star wrote, "Some days I feel really defeated by my depression. It's an exhausting battle that I've been fighting for 11 years and some days, like today, it can feel intolerable."

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Kristen Bell has opened up about suffering from anxiety and depression. While appearing on "Sunday Today with Willie Geist" in November 2021, the actress revealed that she takes medication for her struggles. "Everyone thinks there’s some shame in it," Bell shared. "I am someone who takes a medication for her anxiety and depression. I am someone who has to check myself and sometimes — if I’m feeling really low — make a checklist of good and bad things in my life to see if it’s my mental state or if we really have a problem. And me talking about that actually came from [my husband, Dax Shepard]."

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Taraji P. Henson has admitted to experiencing suicide ideation in the past as well as suffering from anxiety and depression. She co-founded the Boris Lawrence Henderson Foundation, which strives to end the stigma surrounding mental health issues in the Black community.

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Brie Larson revealed in July 2020 that she suffers from anxiety. In a video posted to her YouTube channel, the actress shared, "For me, my baseline has been I’m an introvert with asthma. Like, that's been my story for myself. I'm introverted, I’m scared, I have social anxiety. And through, in particular, playing Captain Marvel, that like kind of wiped clean those titles I had for myself and made me go, ‘Whoa, I’m not really that anymore.'"

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Millie Bobby Brown has spoken out about her struggles with anxiety. While speaking with Glamour UK in August 2020, the "Stranger Things" star shared, "When I’m having a bad day or I’m feeling very anxious, some things like when people say, 'Oh, you looked bad at this award show because you looked like this or you looked like that,' those things make me a little bit more anxious and that hinders me a little bit more. I have learned to manage it in ways that a lot of people learn to manage things like breathing exercises or distracting your mind and my hobbies help distract me from being anxious. … I have to give myself love because that’s important. Everyone has to empower themselves."

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Noah Cyrus has been candid with fans about her mental health struggles, including depression and anxiety. While celebrating the two-year anniversary of her 2018 EP "Good Cry" back in September 2020, the then-20-year-old singer revealed that her depression reached the point in which she didn't think she was "going to be here for a 20th birthday." "putting this ep out and going on tour during one of the most depressive times in my life was so hard," Cyrus wrote at the time. "every day felt like lifting 100lb weights just to get out of bed. the ache in my chest from the pain felt unbearable... at 18 i didn't think i was going to be here for a 20th birthday soon to be 21. they felt 1000 years away. it seems impossible... i was so sad. so hurt. and so scared. thank you to everyone that's been by my side during all of my progression and the times where it felt like i was regressing."

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Dan Levy has shared that he's suffered from anxiety since he was a child, revealing that much of his childhood anxiety stemmed from his sexuality. "I think that came from a deep-rooted fear of knowing that I was gay and not being able to be free," Levy told Bustle in Decembebr 2020. “By the time I got to high school, when your brain is starting to catch up to your physical impulses, it led to a very confusing time. Because on the one hand, you are now being introduced to things like self-awareness and anxiety. At the same time, you’re becoming more and more savvy when it comes to hiding it."

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Lana Condor has spoken out about suffering from anxiety. In June 2021, the "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" actress tweeted, "Some days my anxiety really gets me and I need to lay in bed & be alone until the trembling stops. And that is absolutely okay! I charge v introverted so that I can expel extroverted energy at my job. And that’s also okay. Take care of yourself and please be kind to yourself ❤️."

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Rapper, singer and producer T-Pain revealed in the 2021 Netflix documentary, "This Is Pop," that he fell into a years-long depression after Usher made comments about his use of Autotune, saying he "f---ed up music." T-Pain recalled, "He was like, ‘Yeah, you f---ed it up.' I'm like, 'But I used it, I didn’t tell everybody else to start using it.' That is the very moment, and I don't even think I realized this for a long time, but that’s the very moment that started a four-year depression for me."

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Annie Murphy has opened up about her struggles with depression, revealing in an interview with The Zoe Report in June 2021 that she had received the diagnosis the year prior. The "Schitt's Creek" star credited therapy and antidepressants for helping her get into a better place. "I do not cry every single day on the floor 12 times… I am able to focus on other things in my life," Murphy shared. "Now, honestly, if a friend's like, 'I'm having a really hard time,' I'm like, 'Get on drugs. Get on drugs!' You don't have to be on drugs for the whole time, but they truly, truly saved my life in the sense that I was not a functional human being and I was able to be a functional human being."

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During the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in July 2021, Olympic gymnast Simone Biles pulled out of the U.S team final, before then withdrawing from the all-around final as well as several individual events in order to focus on her mental health after experiencing "the twisties." "Whenever you get in a high stress situation you kind of freak out and don’t really know how to handle all of those emotions, especially at the Olympic Games," she told reporters at the time. "I have to focus on my mental health and not jeopardize my health and wellbeing." Biles later became a chief impact officer for the mental health app Cerebral. Meanwhile, the athlete has previously shared that she struggles with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD.)

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Willow Smith has continued to open up about her struggles with anxiety and panic attacks, as well as self-harm. She has spoke about her mental health publicly, including on her family's Facebook Watch series, "Red Table Talk." "If I can do anything, I want to show that we’re all going through it," Smith said of "RTT" discussing mental health in an interview with Who What Wear in May 2021. "No one is exempt from feeling like they’re being drowned by their emotions or feeling like they’re being drowned by their confusion or their sadness or their external circumstances, whatever they may be. So many negative feelings stem from feeling like you’re the only one who is experiencing these emotions, and that’s just never the case."

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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has revealed he struggled with depression as a teenager. "The first time I had experienced depression, I was 18 years old, and I had no idea what depression was," he told PEOPLE in 2021. "Back then, depression was also called 'get off the couch and get your s---- together and change what's happening here.'"

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Dakota Johnson revealed to Marie Claire in 2020 that she's suffered from depression since she was a teenager. "I’ve struggled with depression since I was young—since I was 15 or 14," she said. "That was when, with the help of professionals, I was like, Oh, this is a thing I can fall into. But I’ve learned to find it beautiful because I feel the world. I guess I have a lot of complexities, but they don’t pour out of me. I don’t make it anyone else’s problem."

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Olivia Munn has spoken publicly in the past about her struggles with anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and trichotillomania, which is also called "hair-pulling disorder." Taking to Twitter in 2018, Munn revealed that she's "lived with anxiety and sporadic bouts of depression for most of my adult life," adding, "For those who don't understand depression, when someone is in that place it’s not because they want to die ... it’s because the ongoing, relentless darkness is too painful to endure anymore. You don’t have to suffer from anxiety and depression to feel that low. Something very sad or traumatic can happen to you just once to bring about that feeling of despair."

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Lena Dunham has been open about her battle with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and generalized anxiety order over the years, even detailing her childhood struggles with OCD in her 2014 memoir, "Not That Kind of Girl."

Stars Who've Been Open About Their Mental Health Struggles

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