Camila Cabello Opens Up About Experiencing 'Crippling Anxiety' While Making 'Familia'

Camila Cabello is going into detail about her brand new album, Familia.

During her interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, the 25-year-old singer opened up about going through crippling anxiety while she was recording many of the album’s tracks, as well as how she grappled with it.

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“For a while, it was a couple months where I didn’t go back in the studio,” she confessed while speaking of the anxiety she faced during the recording period. “I was just doing therapy. I was literally not functioning.”

Camila adds that she didn’t feel she was able to work, and sought out therapy.

“I found a therapist that everything they said really resonated with me. And part of that healing was going in the studio and being like, ‘I’m not going to do it if it’s not fun. It’s not going to be a performance. I can’t take it. Literally I won’t do it. It has to be something that helps me in feeling better and getting better because I can’t take this as a source of anxiety or stress. I just won’t do it.’”

She adds, “What I was looking for so desperately, whether it came in the from of me in the studio or not, was connection and being seen. That’s why, for me, it was so important to be with people. Not forget about the music. I just was like, ‘I need to be able to trust and feel safe with the people that I’m making this music with. I need to be able to talk about these things. I need to be able to…’”

Camila went on, sharing the reason why she chose to share her experiences publicly.

“That was something that I used to do to myself, was invalidate my own experiences. Because I would be like, ‘Oh, nobody wants to hear that from me. Why am I so anxious? Why do I have crippling anxiety? Why do I whatever?’” she says. “My life from the outside looks great… We’re humans. What I have experienced, what Normani has experienced, what everybody experiences is so much more than what you see on the surface level, what you see my life like from the outside.”

“It is so much more, actually, responsible and better for people if artists are just like the voice of the vulnerabilities and the anxieties and all of that.”

Just recently, Camila opened up about her two-year process of making Familia.