Selena Gomez Feels “Freedom” After Sharing Her Mental Health Struggles
Robbie Williams is facing a new health challenge.
The “Angels” singer shared that he was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by rapid, repetitive and involuntary muscle movements or sounds called “tics.”
For Robbie, however, those involuntary tics aren’t external but internal.
“I’ve just realized that I have Tourette’s, but they don’t come out,” the 51-year-old explained during the Oct. 2 episode of the I’m ADHD! No You’re Not podcast. “They are intrusive thoughts that happen.”
The Take That alum—who shares children Theodora, 12, Charlton, 10, Colette, 6 and Beau, 5, with wife Ayda Field—went on to describe the moment he realized he might be afflicted with the syndrome.
“I was just walking down the road the other day and I realized that these intrusive thoughts are inside Tourette’s,” Robbie said. “Not only that, you would think that a stadium full of people professing their love to you would work [as a distraction], but whatever it is, inside me, cannot hear it. I cannot take it in.”
And that’s not the only health concern the musician has been dealing with as of late. Robbie also shared that he believes he may have autism, a mental disorder that is characterized by challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech and nonverbal communication, according to Autism Speaks.
“It turns out I’m not,” the musician shared, revealing that he took an online test to reach the conclusion. “But I’ve got autistic traits. It’s around social stuff—it’s about interaction.”
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That’s why Robbie hopes to see a medical professional about his theory soon, insisting that a more official diagnosis would give him an “understanding of why I feel so uncomfortable in my skin.”
“When I’m in bed, that’s my comfort zone. Anywhere outside of that bed is my discomfort zone,” he continued. “It’s getting better. It was awful, horrendous through my 20s, bad through my 30s, my 40s started to get better and I’m on an upward curve, but I’m still uncomfortable in my skin.”
For more stars who have gotten candid about their mental health, keep reading.
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Penn Badgley
The Gossip Girl alum detailed his experience as a child actor with what he described as “body dysmorphia.”
“I know that I hated my body,” Penn told The Guardian in April 2025, “and simply wanted a different one.”
In response to the weight he gained following his parents’ divorce, he added, “There was just a period where, coming out of depression and isolation, I was jumping wilfully into, but also being thrust into, this world where the more conventionally beautiful I seemed, the more successful I might be, the more value I might have.”
Despite the mental struggles, though, Penn credited his ability to persist to his spirituality.
“That is what allowed me to persevere through the disillusionment, all the things I’d been grappling with,” he explained, “and then come back to it all, but with hopefully some kind of inner transformation.”
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Eliza Coupe
The Scrubs alum has been vocal about her past difficult relationship with food.
“Some may call it an eating disorder, I just call it my life,” she said on the The Funny Thing Is podcast. “My drug of choice was always food. I did crazy s–t with it.”
She added, “I would over-exercise, and there was a sprinkle of bulimia in there.”
Though she has confessed her struggles with her diet, she has also shared her progress with her health and fitness goals.
“When I was 23, I cut all sugar out of my diet, quit drinking, and found yoga and breathing and stretching,” she told Bon Appétit in 2017. “That’s the best Ritalin you could give anyone.”
She continued, “I’m an actress with food issues and body image issues—that’s real. But I’m trying to heal that part of myself and also handle my physical issues naturally by putting the best things into my body.”
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Candace Cameron Bure
The Full House alum reflected on her mental health journey and navigating her battle with depression.
“It’s very difficult to speak out about it, even to your most trusted people,” she shared on her Candace Cameron Bure Podcast. “At least for me, I feel like I should be strong enough to overcome that and then it feels so weak.”
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Billie Eilish
The Grammy winner has been very open about how she protects her energy, such as ignoring haters on social media, while also sharing her advice for those who may need help.
“When people ask me what I’d say to somebody looking for advice on mental health, the only thing I can say is patience,” she told Vogue. “I had patience with myself. I didn’t take that last step. I waited. Things fade.”
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Katy Perry
While everyone was trying to make the best of socially distancing to slow the coronavirus pandemic, the “Firework” artist got real about how situations like this can also be extremely stressful.
“Sometimes I don’t know what’s worse trying to avoid the virus or the waves of depression that come with this new norm,” she shared on Twitter. Katy talked about how she manages those waves, writing, “There is not really anywhere to go besides my car. So I go to my car a lot. That is my safe space.”
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Kendall Jenner
The model, who teamed up with designer Kenneth Cole to raise awareness for The Mental Health Coalition, spoke on Good Morning America about her own experiences with anxiety.
She recalled after her panic attacks started recurring, she, “finally kind of got the information that I needed about it.”
“For me, I have good days and I have some really anxious days, so I’m really off and on,” Kendall expressed, adding that was why she wanted to become involved with the movement. “What I hope to accomplish is for people to not feel as alone.”
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Dwayne Johnson
The Black Adam actor has been open about having depression and how it can be difficult for men to talk about their mental health.
“We all go thru the sludge/shit and depression never discriminates. Took me a long time to realize it but the key is to not be afraid to open up,” he wrote on Twitter. “Especially us dudes have a tendency to keep it in. You’re not alone.”
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Prince Harry
The Duke of Sussex helped break down some of the stigma around seeking help for mental health when, in an interview with the Telegraph, he opened up about his own journey with therapy. As he told the outlet, “The experience I have had is that once you start talking about it, you realize that actually you’re part of quite a big club.”
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Taraji P. Henson
Another proponent of seeking professional help, the Empire star has been open about her struggles with depression.
“I have a therapist that I speak to,” she previously told Variety. “That’s the only way I can get through it.”
Taraji even started The Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation, which works to reduce the stigma around mental health in the African American community and also works to increase the number of Black therapists.
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Lorde
The Grammy winner explained that experiences with an eating disorder and stage freight led her to start a form of PTSD treatment called MDMA and and psilocybin therapy.
“I was touring without stage fright for the first time,” she told Rolling Stone in May 2025. “There was a hook around my guts and everyone in the room was having the same feeling, [like] there’d been a huge pressure change. It made me realize how much I love and kind of need that very deep, visceral response to feel my music.”
She added that her renewed focus on her mental health, as well as her decision to stop taking birth control, caused her understanding of her own gender to become “more expansive.”
“I felt like stopping taking my birth control, I had cut some sort of cord between myself and this regulated femininity,” she continued. “It sounds crazy, but I felt that all of a sudden, I was off the map of femininity. And I totally believed that that allowed things to open up.”
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Lili Reinhart
“When I was in middle school, I was struggling with severe anxiety and depression and the help and support I received from my family and a therapist saved my life,” the Riverdale actress wrote on Instagram in 2017. “Asking for help is the first step. You are more precious to this world than you’ll ever know.”
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Carly Pearce
The “What He Didn’t Do” singer shared insight into what her life has been like during her yearslong battle with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
“I would have told you three years ago my anxiety started during my divorce in Covid,” Carly said an August 2025 episode of Bunnie Xo’s Dumb Blonde podcast. “But I’ve had crippling OCD since I was a child.”
“I got really conditioned over the last 10 years to just zip it up and deal with it, and it just kind of got to a place where a couple years ago I just had to really start back into therapy, start really, like, trying to figure out all of these different things,” she continued. “Like, recognizing OCD was something—no, that didn’t come in 2020, that’s been there since I was 6 or 7.”
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Kristen Bell
The Frozen star has talked for years about her strategies for coping with her mental health at public keynotes and even on her Instagram Stories.
She has advocated for finding the methods that help you best, which for her, according to Health, can include medication, listing ten positive things in her life for every negative thought and getting plenty of exercise.
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Chrissy Teigen
While the cookbook author is the proud parent to four kiddos, she’s also been open about postpartum depression that many new mothers experience but feel like they cannot talk about.
“It got easier and easier to say it aloud every time,” she wrote in an open letter to Glamour in 2017. “I want people to know it can happen to anybody and I don’t want people who have it to feel embarrassed or to feel alone.”
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Cara Delevingne
While promoting her book Mirror, Mirror, the model opened up to The Edit magazine about facing depression and suicidal thoughts as a teenager, saying she felt “something dark” in her during that time.
“I relied too much on love, too much on other people to make me happy, and I needed to learn to be happy by myself,” Cara told the publication, via W. “So now I can be by myself, I can be happy. It took me a long time.”
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Ariana Grande
The “Thank U, Next” artist has encouraged fans to seek help if they need, responding to a Twitter user who joked about wondering who Ariana’s therapist is with, “lmaoaoo this is funny as f–k but in all honesty therapy has saved my life so many times.”
“If you’re afraid to ask for help, don’t be,” she continued. “u don’t have to be in constant pain & u can process trauma. I’ve got a lot of work to do but it’s a start to even be aware that it’s possible.”
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Demi Lovato
The singer has been open about her journey with addiction, sobriety, mental health and more, including many of those aspects of her life within her music.
She also continually reminds fans that working on your mental health is an ongoing process where there will be some bad days, previously writing on Instagram, “A reminder to anyone struggling out there – this life is a journey with tons of ups and downs but you can’t give up.”
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Zendaya
Not only has the actress taken on roles that deal with mental health, such as her role as Rue in the teen drama Euphoria, she’s also addressed those issues in her own life, too.
Back in 2013, Zendaya wrote on her now-defunct app that she struggled with anxiety after an appearance on Ellen where her mic went out. She has since learned ways to manage those feelings, adding, “Sometimes you just have to take a step back so things stop stressin’ you.”
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Selena Gomez
The singer candidly described her mental health journey with WSJ Magazine, saying, “My highs were really high, and my lows would take me out for weeks at a time.”
“I found out I do suffer from mental health issues,” she shared. “I got on the right medication, and my life has been completely changed.”
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Lady Gaga
The Grammy winner made it her mission to spread kindness and be open about mental health, including her own.
“I have struggled for a long time, both being public and not public about my mental health issues or my mental illness,” she said during the Global Changemakers Award at Children Mending Hearts’ Empathy Rocks fundraiser in 2018. “But, I truly believe that secrets keep you sick.”
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