Perrie Edwards has candidly revealed the extent of her anxiety after being taken to hospital during her time in Little Mix.
The singer emotionally recalled a time where she was asked if she'd taken drugs while suffering a panic attack. She has been open about her anxiety and panic attacks over the years, admitting it has sometimes been so intense she thought she was having a heart attack.
Perrie has since reflected on her time in Little Mix and shared how her mental health became worse when touring with the band. "My anxiety started when we as a band were in Las Vegas a few years ago when something happened. I'd been having panic attacks for a while," she said.
"I thought I was dying, my heart hurt and I went to hospital and they were like 'what drugs have you taken' and I said 'nothing!' I told them 'something's happening to my heart I'm going to die' - and I was having a panic attack. Since that trip they just kept coming and it got so bad I had to ask my mum if she was going to put me in a mental institute."
She added to Fearne Cotton on her Happy Place podcast: "Having therapy has helped me massively. I tried so many therapists and doctors. I catastrophize normal daily life things but when I'm on stage I'm fine." The singer also opened up on how she tries to keep her anxiety away from her son Axel.
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PA)Perrie shares her three-year-old boy with footballer fiancé Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. "I never want my little boy see that I am anxious. I'm scared people will see me out and about and recognise me and see me having a panic attack," she admitted. "But I feel better now after finding the right therapist. But you have to go through the thick of it first and feel it all."
During the candid chat, Perrie also reflected on the tragic death of One Direction star Liam Payne. The singer fell from the third-floor balcony of the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, earlier this month. Perrie, who, like Liam, found fame on the X Factor, dated the singer's bandmate, Zayn Malik.
She said: "I think it just feels weird, it’s just so sad. It’s so heartbreaking, and my heart honestly hurts for his family, his friends, Cheryl (Tweedy, the mother of Payne’s son Bear, seven), his little boy. It’s just absolutely devastating, and I can’t even imagine how they must be feeling right now.
"I didn’t think it was real when I read it, and it’s a very weird space, and I think it’s in the air, everyone can feel it, it’s really sad. Us girls were messaging, and I think Leigh-Anne (Pinnock, fellow Little Mix member) was like, ‘it’s very close to home’, our careers were very aligned.
"We had a relationship with them (One Direction), and it’s honestly so sad, like it made my body feel weird when I saw the headlines, I was like that can’t be real. It shakes you up, it’s just blooming awful, and all of our hearts go out to his family. It’s an unthinkable thing to have to go through."
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