Lewis Capaldi opened up about suffering from severe panic attacks and why he sometimes sleeps next to his mother.
The Scottish singer, 25, has hypochondria - which is an illness anxiety disorder which causes people worrying excessively that they are or may become seriously ill.
He explained that his mum - who is a nurse - helps him cope when things get difficult for him.
Speaking on Steven Bartlett's The Diary Of A CEO podcast, he said: "If I phone her and I say, 'Mum, I've got a headache, I'm dizzy, I think I've got a brain tumour or something,' she'll be like, 'Shut the f**k up, you're fine. Take some paracetamol and go to bed.'"
Lewis struggled with it since he was young, and most recently, the hypochondria caused him to cancel a show in Austin.
He cancelled the show because he was convinced there was something wrong with him so he wanted to get an MRI scan
However, it was all in his head.
The singer is currently in therapy and he said it has assisted him due to being able to talk about his worries. Despite having people to talk to, no one else 'can help' besides his mum.
"If I'm having a panic attack there's nobody else that can help me out of it except my mum, for sure," he continued.
"My mum has had to sleep in my bed as recently as a month ago because of how bad my anxiety got at one point. But I think that was alcohol related to be honest, I had been on a bit of a bender."
The Before You Go musician explained that his panic attacks weren't a problem until he became famous.
"It never really reached a tipping point until after getting famous, I never had a panic attack until after I was famous, or after I was a musician or after I got to a height," Lewis said.
"The hypochondria - I guess looking back, I was such an anxious kid, but now because I understand it a lot more with therapy and I speak about it a lot more with people and try to learn more about it, I look back at it and think the behaviour was a result of anxiety."
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Towards the end of the interview, Steven asked Lewis how he has been doing, to which Lewis said he's been doing good.
"I think I was not in a rut but in a funny patch in the few weeks prior, feeling a bit dejected. Overall the anxiety really got the f*****g better of me. But after the last couple of weeks I think I'm coming out of the other end of it."
It comes after Lewis revealed he was diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome and is learning how to live with the twitches and the condition.
The Scottish singer said his decision to make his diagnosis public knowledge was due to the fact he doesn't want his fans thinking he is "taking cocaine or something", as he opens up about discovering he has the condition that causes a person to make involuntary sounds and movements called tics.
The Hold Me While You Wait singer is being treated with Botox injections to freeze muscles to try to control the tics characteristic of Tourette’s and reassures fans his shoulder twitches are "not as bad as it looks".
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