Kelsea Ballerini ended up in therapy in the years after she found fame.
The 31-year-old country star - who was married to Morgan Evans from 2017 until 2022 - had initially attended therapy sessions as a teenager when her parents divorced but it wasn't until the years after she made it big in music that she started to feel "removed" from her childhood friends in her hometown of Knoxville, Tennesee and she sought professional help again.
She told Women's Health: "I’d been on the road for four years, and I was exhausted. I was marriedand I was looking around at all my friends who have 9-to-5 jobs and still live in my hometown, and I was realizing I felt really removed, really different. I was starting to have questions like, What is driving me?
"Is missing Mom’s birthday worth it? Am I okay? And am I happy? I couldn’t answer these fundamental questions I should have been able to answer, so I got back into therapy, by my choice, and fell in love with it."
The 'Two Things' hitmaker now has bi-weekly therapy sessions and initially had "no idea" what she wanted to discuss with her therapist, but ended up with a "better understanding" of things by the time she had finished her first day.
She said: "My therapist asked me to bring in letters, journals, and pictures from my childhood that are significant to me.
“I went in having no idea what I wanted to talk about. I just wanted to dig deeper. We started in the morning, and it lasted seven hours. [By the end], I was exhausted, but I had a better understanding of a lot of things. I had the time to really untangle them."
