Adam Lambert Opens Up About Mental Health In Emotional Message
In a personal message to fans, Adam Lambert opened up about his new music and mental health. The singer spoke about coming out of a “dark period” and thanked his followers for their continued support.
“Let me offer a most sincere thank you for your patience and continued faith in me,” he tweeted. “You’ve pushed me to keep going even when I felt discouraged. I love making and performing music, but there have been many times where I’ve had to compromise on my artistic vision, with executives making decisions based on money and not art.”
“Don’t get me wrong ā I’m VERY proud of my body of word. But I’m coming out of a dark period of second-guessing my own artistry and having my mental health suffer because of it,” he continued. “I started asking myself, ‘is all this hustle really worth it?’ I put all my focus on my work and started to feel detached in my personal life. My self-worth was suffering. I was lonely and becoming depressed.”
He also said that being on tour with Queen helped recharge him with “positive energy.”
“With a bit of professional help and the support of colleagues, friends and family, I pulled myself out of the darkness,” Lambert says.Ā “I decided to begin my next album on my own so I wouldn’t be influenced by anything but my passion for music. I reached out to fellow writers and artists that I’d met over the years and began booking sessions with them. I wanted to make the music I wanted to make, and to get in the headspace I was in when I first dreamed of being a singer-before playing industry games started messing with my love for music.”