Nick Cannon is opening up about the mental health journey that he’s been on.
Earlier this month, the Masked Singer host was diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder. And he revealed as much to People on Wednesday evening while he was serving meals to the less fortunate at the Los Angeles Mission Thanksgiving celebration in El Lay.
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Speaking candidly about his frankly shocking diagnosis and some of the insecurities that he has felt along the way, the 44-year-old television star said:
“I still don’t understand it all the way, but I kind of always wanted to get tested for it. I did a bunch of tests. I’ve been diagnosed with ADHD. Even as a kid it was dyslexia, but just knowing that I’m just a neurodivergent individual, I kind of always knew.”
And at the end of the day, the father 12 times over is focusing on how he can heal himself and get help to become the best dad and human that he can possibly be through it all:
“I feel like there’s so many labels out there, but it’s like, to be able to embrace it and say, ‘Look, I’m healing. I need help. Show me.’ I just embrace mental health and therapy in such a strong way. To be able to say I’m an example for others, but also be healing during the self-process works too.”
Amen to that!
Interestingly, Nick actually very briefly opened up about being diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder during an episode of the Counsel Culture podcast with Dr. Cheyenne Bryant back on November 8, too. While that went overlooked in the media at the time, Nick did nevertheless talk about his diagnosis a little bit during that long-form interview:
“I’ve taken all the power away from the term narcissism ’cause I’ve researched it and I understand it. Call me whatever you want… now if I didn’t know what it was, then I have issue with it.”
You can watch more of that powerful conversation (below):
BTW, Nick also spoke to People about how he’s planning to hit up all of his kids’ homes and be part of all their lives for the upcoming holiday season. Remarking how he was set to visit multiple homes on Thanksgiving Day — and is planning to do the same thing come Christmas, too — he noted:
“It’s very complicated. I’m a busy man on Thanksgiving. I’m going to be full by the end of the day, but everybody specializes in certain things, you know what I mean? Some people got good sweet potato pie, some people got amazing fried turkey. So I know every house that needs to have the things that I really like.”
And as for Christmas specifically, he remarked how he’ll be “all over” in December. That includes as many snowy getaways with his kids as he can muster:
“Everywhere from Aspen to Santa’s Village, all of those things. All the kids want to go to the snow. So a little bit of East Coast, a little bit of Aspen, a little bit of Big Bear.”
Sounds hectic. But also fun!
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[Image via Counsel Culture Podcast/YouTube]
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