LeAnn Rimes says seeking mental health treatment was “the best gift” she could have given herself.
LeAnn Rimes
The 38-year-old singer checked into a facility to undergo treatment for depression and anxiety back in 2012, and has now said the decision was one of the best choices she’s ever made, as it helped her learn how to “be alone”, and how to “bring herself back” from the brink.
She said: "It was the best gift I could've given myself. I constantly had people around me my whole life, whether it be parents, my ex-husband, a manager or agent, all the world's eyes were on me constantly. Talk about codependency. I had never been alone really until being in treatment for anxiety and depression.
"It felt like somebody plugged me into a wall socket and left me on. I needed to figure out how to unravel from that and bring myself back."
LeAnn also admitted heading to a treatment centre was tough because she was “scared to be alone”, but she ultimately knew she “needed help”.
Speaking during an episode of ‘The Tamron Hall Show’ - which will air in full on Wednesday (23.12.20) - she added: "I needed to gather those pieces and bring those back into wholeness. All those pieces I had rejected about myself, learn how to love them and realise that the totality of me is lovable not just the LeAnn Rimes that's projected into the world that everybody wanted to be this perfect little girl. It was the totality of me that could come to the table and have a voice.”
Meanwhile, the ‘How Do I Live’ singer recently said she continues to struggle with anxiety and depression to this day, but now has a “toolbox” of things which help her cope, including people she can talk to.
She said: "At first I didn't want to face my pain, because I thought I would get lost in it. But I didn't. People are so ashamed to talk about it and ask for help. But taking away the shame is so important.
"There was so much emptiness and sadness amidst joy. And I had to be LeAnn Rimes, the entity, not LeAnn Rimes, the person. I was very fragmented."
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