Lil Nas X gets candid about bipolar disorder, rehab after mental health episode: 'I'm feeling better'
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Lil Nas X says he feels “less fear in my heart” as he opens up about receiving treatment for bipolar disorder and moving forward from the mental health episode that landed him in hot water with law officials last year.The Grammy winner (real name Montero Lamar Hill) addressed last year’s events in a video Wednesday morning on Instagram.
Lil Nas X, 27, informed fans that he has been in a rehab program “for a few months,” spending time with family in Atlanta and with friends in Los Angeles.Since last year’s incident, the singer said he has been focused on “trying to ground myself down to Earth and get out of my head.”Lil Nas X was hospitalized and arrested in August after he was seen strolling in only his underwear and white boots through Studio City, eventually shedding those items as the night progressed.
The singer received treatment at a nearby hospital for a possible overdose but was accused of assaulting police officers.He was charged with four felony counts: three counts of battery with injury on a police officer and one count of resisting an executive officer.
Police accused the singer of assaulting the officers who were trying to take him into custody.Lil Nas X pleaded not guilty to all those counts.
Entertainment & Arts Grammy winner Lil Nas X’s stroll through Studio City early Thursday morning ended in his hospitalization and his arrest on suspicion of charging at a police officer.In Wednesday’s video, Lil Nas X explained that he has also started seeing a therapist and psychiatrist to help address his mental condition — one he initially refused to accept.The singer, smiling and standing against a blue sky in his video, told fans that he was hesitant to take medication that would help address his bipolar disorder and joked that living with mental illness would add more to his plate: “I mean I’m already Black and gay...I’m like already li...