Katy Perry Opens Up About Her Experience Going to Therapy in New Interview

Katy Perry opened up about a lot of personal matters in her weekend-long Facebook livestream, from her conflict with Taylor Swift to her experience in therapy, and now she is addressing her mental health again in a new interview.

“I’ve been going to therapy for about five years,” the 32-year-old “Bon Appetit” singer told Kiis106.5, “and I think it has really helped my mental health incredibly. And it’s a really wonderful thing to be able to talk to someone who doesn’t judge you, because I don’t think a lot of people have that. I encourage it. People think it’s weird or they think yoga is weird. No, there is nothing weird about taking care of your physical and mental health. That’s awesome.”

We totally agree. Katy went on to express what she hopes to accomplish by being honest about her struggles.

“I have nothing to hide and I think that in a way, if I let down my guard and lift the veil on what people think that people in my position are or look like, maybe they can see that we are all just the same. We are like anyone else.”

Selena Gomez is also a big advocate for therapy, as she explained last month. We love it when stars talk about mental health struggles and therapy, because they are both so much more common than we are trained to believe — and they are also totally normal.