LeAnn Rimes is opening up about her battle with mental health.
In a new interview with Fox News the 38-year-old country singer said that after 15 years of pent up trauma, she ultimately checked herself into treatment for anxiety and depression the day after her 30th birthday.
‘At first I didn’t want to face my pain because I thought I would get lost in it. But I didn’t,’ she shared.
Asking for help: LeAnn Rimes, 38, says she sought treatment for her depression and anxiety the day after she turned 30 in a new interview, ‘At first I didn’t want to face my pain because I thought I would get lost in it’; pictured November 2020
Starting her career in music at the age of 13, her whirlwind of success caused her to bury a lot of her issues, only realizing the magnitude of her suppression later in life.
Going on to say that she was trying to erase the stigma around asking for help, she dove into her breaking point and shared why she ultimately sought treatment.
‘People are so ashamed to talk about it and ask for help, but taking away the shame is so important. I had so much underlying grief, everything accumulated and I had to give in,’ she said.
Around 2012 when she finally got help, she found herself embroiled in scandal after she had an affair with now husband and ex-spouse of Real Housewife Brandi Glanville’s, Eddie Cibrian, while they were both still married.
Mounting trauma: The culmination of 15 years of trauma and finding herself embroiled in scandal after having an extra-marital affair, LeAnn said she reached her breaking point; pictured 2011
On the defense: Around 2012 after going public with her affair with now husband Cibrian she had to fend off accusations from his ex wife Glanville that she had a ‘serious eating disorder’ and was addicted to laxatives
The Can’t Fight the Moonlight singer also had to fend off accusations from a scorned Glanville that she was addicted to laxatives and had a serious eating disorder, which she called ‘outlandish allegations.’
Breaking down in a television interview she addressed the affair and said, ‘You can’t break what’s broken already.’
Now in the process of releasing her new album CHANT: The Human & The Holy, Rime said that the album came to be serendipitously.
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‘It’s taken my whole journey to allow something like this to be birthed through me. I just trusted it and I didn’t question it,’ she shared, while crediting both her high and low points throughout her life for helping her make the record.
She called the 2021 album a ‘big trust project,’ as she said she wanted to, ‘move forward without putting myself under my own limitations,’ while adding she needed and ‘wanted to be of service for something greater.’
Pushing forward: The artist credited meditation with helping her find the strength to write her new album and also as a necessary outlet for her stress amid the pandemic; pictured 2020
The artist also credited meditation with being a fundamental part of synthesizing her mind, body and soul as she said it ‘has made a huge shift in my life,’ and helped her get through the pandemic.
‘It’s like I come home to myself,’ she said.
‘I have a daily practice but during this time of lockdown it has been incredibly challenging to keep that daily practice, but every time I return to it, I remember why I meditate,’ she continued.
LeAnn also shared that it has been a ‘huge factor’ in reducing her stress and ‘helping to reduce inflammation in the body,’ as she recently got candid about her lifelong battle with psoriasis in an essay for Glamour.
Lifelong battle: LeAnn posed for Glamour magazine and penned a personal essay about her lifelong struggle with psoriasis as she shared, ‘I felt like I had to hide’; pictured October 29th
‘I felt like I had to hide,’ she said. ‘No one was talking about this. And certainly not when I signed my first record deal at 11. In the world we lived in, our ‘flaws’ were not invited to the forefront.’
In her new iHeartRadio podcast Wholly Human, the singer plans to share her embattled journey to get to her current state of wellness.
‘All the pieces of our humanity carry just as much worth as the ones we feel are wholly,’ she concluded.
Open discourse: Rimes’ upcoming album CHANT and new podcast Wholly Human are the products of her lifelong journey to achieve a more ‘whole’ state of being as she credits both with helping her forge a new chapter in her life; pictured 2020
Source: Daily Mail
