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Chappell Roan is opening up about all the rawest details of her struggles with mental health.
The Good Luck, Babe! singer’s meteoric rise to stardom hasn’t been an easy one for her to come to grips with. And just a couple years ago, she actively had to fight thoughts of removing herself from the equation entirely. In a candid conversation with Rolling Stone on Tuesday, Chappell heartbreakingly revealed she struggled with suicidal ideation in 2022.
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During her interview with the outlet, the 26-year-old opened up about the effect her mental health had on he before getting help. Struggling her whole life, Chappell, whose real name is Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, told the outlet:
“I felt so miserable for my whole childhood.”
She said her parents always “tried their best,” but it wasn’t until 2020 when she received a bipolar II disorder that she could begin to better understand herself. But around the same time, she began cultivating a fanbase online amid her struggle with hypomania — a symptom of bipolar II. She explained:
“I started gaining a lot of followers when I was being really insane on TikTok. I wasn’t sleeping. I was on the incorrect meds. I had the energy and the delusion and realized that this app is fueled off of mental illness. Straight up.”
And by 2022, things got so bad that she was considering suicide — so she entered an outpatient program:
“I realized I can’t live like this. I can’t live being so depressed or feel so lost that I want to kill myself. I just got my s**t together.”
In May of that same year, she began opening for Olivia Rodrigo on the singer’s Sour Tour. But returned to outpatient care not long after and gained tools to handle her growing stardom. And luckily today, she seems to be in a much better place mentally. She told the outlet:
“I would not have been able to handle any of this even a year ago today. It would’ve just been too much.”
But don’t get her wrong — she does still has her difficult days:
“Nothing about my life is like me anymore. I feel like I just let myself down so much because I’m not how I used to be.”
We just hope she continues to prioritize her mental health! See her full Rolling Stone cover (below):
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If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, help is available. Consider contacting the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988, by calling, texting, or chatting, or go to 988lifeline.org.
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