Celebrities Who Have Opened Up About Their Struggles With Mental Illness

Lady Gaga

In 2016, Lady Gaga revealed she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) during a visit to the Ali Forney Center for homeless LGBT youth in New York City. "The kindness that's shown to me by doctors as well as my family, and my friends, it's really saved my life," she later said on the "Today" show. The Grammy Award-winning singer, who previously revealed in 2014 that she was raped at the age of 19, also penned an open letter about her PTSD for her nonprofit organization, the Born This Way Foundation. "There is a lot of shame attached to mental illness, but it's important that you know that there is hope and a chance for recovery," she wrote. Gaga has also told Paper magazine that she has clinical depression and "it's a fight all the time." "I still work on myself constantly," she said. "I have bad days, I have good days." She also told the publication that her mental health struggles influenced the songs on her 2020 album "Chromatica." "It came from thinking on some days I was going to die," she said of one track in particular. "I was like, 'I'm going to die soon, so I better say something important.' Now I listen to it and know that I'm going to live."