Lainey Wilson felt lost amid her rise to stardom.
The 33-year-old country singer has revealed that she battled depression and anxiety, as she struggled to adjust to her new-found fame and success.
In her new Netflix documentary, Lainey Wilson: Keepin’ Country Cool, she says: “A couple of years ago was wild. Everything I’d ever dreamed about kinda happened all at once.
“You know, when opportunities come at you, and you didn’t have any for so long, you wanna just take ’em all. And I guess a little bit of that was probably fear that they weren’t always gonna be there.”
However, Lainey has managed to overcome her anxieties and she’s now much more comfortable with her own fame.
She said: “I was putting so much pressure on myself to get it right, to be right, to be perfect, to show up, sing the damn song, look good doing it. And I think once I realised that I can’t completely screw it up — like, say I hit a bad note, say I don’t look the best — I think just knowing that I found my place and I ain’t going anywhere … I feel like now that I’ve, like, put my stake in the ground, it definitely takes some stress off.”
Lainey admits that she struggled to cope with the pressures of fame and success.
She said: “I was probably finding my self-worth in what I was doing.
“The performer, the artist, the songwriter, the girl who’s going and shaking everybody’s hands and kissing everybody’s babies — instead of who I truly am.”
Lainey also recalled feeling trapped by her anxiety and depression.
The award-winning star – who made her TV series debut in Yellowstone in 2022 – shared: “I think I was not feeling [like] myself for a couple of years.
“I had reached a point where I was just like, ‘I don’t know if I’ll ever be the same.’ I was extremely anxious, and the anxiousness caused depression, and … the depression caused more anxiousness, because I was like, ‘Why in the world am I depressed during this time of my life? This is everything I’ve ever wanted.'”
