While Kristen Bell was silently battling anxiety and depression, it was her husband, Dax Shepard, who encouraged her to publicly open up about it.
“I’m grateful to my husband for saying, ‘No, you should just talk about it.’ Like he talks about the fact that he’s sober, and that helps people,” Bell told the “Today” show.
“And I now have not stopped talking about it, mainly because I want people to hear that it’s not a big deal and that you can be happy and healthy,” she added.
After years of projecting a certain image, Bell began to feel “inauthentic” in front of her fans.
“It occurred to me that I was showing this very bubbly, bright persona, and that it was inauthentic because it wasn’t telling the whole story,” she shared.
“I had a pit in my stomach for almost feeling ashamed that I had hidden it for so long, because it could’ve helped people before if I had talked about it.”
Recently, Ryan Reynolds revealed he also struggles with anxiety, often using his “Deadpool” persona as a mask to hide his nerves during interviews.