Carly Pearce is getting candid about her mental health.
The 35-year-old singer was a guest on Bunnie Xo‘s Dumb Blonde podcast for the Monday (August 25) episode.
During the podcast episode, Carly opened about her lifelong journey with mental health issues. Carly revealed that although she thought that she started to struggle with her mental health after the COVID-19 pandemic, she’s since realized that it’s been something she’s been dealing with since a young age.
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“I would have told you, like, three years ago, my anxiety started during my divorce in COVID,” Carly said. The singer got divorced from Michael Ray in 2020 after getting married in 2019.
Carly continued and explained that rather than starting with her divorce, her mental health issues began to manifest when she was a child. She told Bunnie Xo, “But I’ve had crippling OCD since I was a child. So like checking my backpack over and over and over, checking my alarm over and over and over.”
The singer revealed that she would get anxious about storms as a child, leading to her mom taking her to a library in order to meet a meteorologist to try to help her.
“So, I’ve had anxiety my whole life. I still struggle with OCD,” Carly revealed on the podcast.
“I think my body just had, like, a visceral reaction of like, ‘Oh my God.’ And then I.. I mean, I can’t tell you how many interviews I sat through trying so hard to just, like, keep myself together. It’s been like a journey for me,” Carly continued, sharing that getting into therapy after her divorce has helped her to realize this is something she’s been dealing with her whole life.
If you missed it, Carly was recently rushed to the hospital after an accident in the kitchen!
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