Camila Cabello Shares How Therapy Helped Her Amid Anxiety Struggles

Camila Cabello has opened up about how therapy helped her cope with anxiety struggles even before her breakup with Shawn Mendes in November 2021. The 25-year-old singer told E! News in an interview that anxiety used to make her feel "paralyzed" and made it hard for her to go to work a few times.

"There was a time where my anxiety felt so bad, I was like, 'I don't feel like I can go in the studio. I don't feel like I can work. I don't know,'" Cabello told the outlet. "And so, the only way for me to go to work every day was to be honest and be myself. And if I didn't go to work and was just waiting for myself to feel better before I did that...it's just a paralyzing feeling."

She continued, "My life was so bad and so painful that I was like, 'If you tell me that eating s--t off the ground will make me feel better, I will do it. I was like, 'Yes, of course, therapy. All of it.'"

One good thing about therapy, according to the "Cinderella" star, is that it allows her to talk about things she would normally never disclose to anyone. "I just felt so vulnerable," she said. "It was so hard to talk about those things. It was the first time I talked about those things that I'd only ever talked to my mom and my therapist about."

The "Havana" singer is set to drop her third studio album, "Familia," Friday. The 12-track album features appearances from Maria Becerra and Willow Smith. It also includes two Spanish-language songs.

Cabello said she is more connected to her new album, which presents her in a "better space" compared to the time she was making her first two albums. "I was just like in a really kind of sh-tty place, like mental health wise," she told Reuters in a separate interview. "Obviously, I want to make good songs, but to me, it's just like, I just want to have a good time today in the studio and feel safe and feel relaxed and feel like I'm being true to myself."

"Compared to my previous albums, I think I'm just me as a human being is just in a better, more grounded, more, well rounded space. My first two albums were, like late teens, early 20s - I had a lot of anxiety making those albums," she said further.