Lainey Wilson recently discussed how she faced the dark side of fame after achieving stardom, revealing that she once felt like she was “spinning out of control” as anxiety and depression took hold at the peak of her success.
yellowstone The star, who has become one of country music’s brightest names in recent years, shares her deeply personal experience in her new Netflix documentary Lanny Wilson: Keeping Country CoolAnd his words are quite relevant.
“It was wild a few years ago,” she admitted. “Everything I saw in the dream happened all at once.”
Watermelon Moonshine The singer continued, “When opportunities come to you, and you haven’t had any for so long, you just want to take them all.”
“I think a little bit of the fear was probably that they weren’t going to be there forever,” Lainey said.
But behind the sold-out shows and career-defining moments, the star was struggling and far from well.
“I think I just wasn’t feeling like myself for a few years,” she revealed. “I got to a point where I was just like, ‘I don’t know if I’ll ever be the same.'”
“I was extremely anxious, and the anxiety led to depression,” he said. heart like a truck The hitmaker confessed, “And the depression created more anxiety, because I was like, ‘Why the hell am I depressed at this time in my life? This is everything I ever wanted.'”
The emotional trauma became impossible to ignore. “I guess you could say I had a breakdown several times,” Lainey continued, “I thought I wasn’t going to come back from that either.”
He admitted, “It was a solid panic attack that lasted for several days. I did the show and everything when I had the panic attack. It was horrible.”
Describing the experience as a “chemical imbalance”, Lainey said: “I was spinning out of control. And then there’s this fear of thinking that you’re always going to be stuck in that mindset. It causes more anxiety. It’s like a vicious cycle.”
In the midst of that difficult time, Lainey turned to someone she greatly admires, Reba McEntire, for guidance. “I said, ‘This is a loaded question, but what do you do when you feel like you can’t go on?'” she recalls.
Reba’s response proved transformative. “She said, ‘I do it for someone else.’ “And that right there put a lot of things into perspective for me.”
That simple shift in mindset has helped Lanny Wilson reconnect with his purpose. Now, when she steps on stage, it’s not just about the pressure to succeed, it’s about the people in front of her. “I get on that stage and I do it for other people.”
