High-pressure careers and constantly being in the lime light can make famous people more prone to anxiety, and Nigeria’s super love song singer and writer Di’Ja is not an exception.
The ‘looku looku’ singer disclosed this in an interview with YFM’s Brown Berry on the ‘Ryse and Shyne show.’
“I think a lot of people in the entertainment industry deal with things like anxiety, mental health and instability. I have dealt with anxiety for years.”
According to her you have to manage your mind first before anything else, and celebrities are often under extreme pressure to reproduce the same or better quality of work that catapulted them to fame in the first place, all while under an increasingly critical public eye.
The mother of three also noted that having kids has helped her manage her health and she has to be okay for them. “You cannot be a walking zombie and so I take my mental health very serious.”
Di’Ja added, “In Africa everything is about having a strong mind but I have allowed my vulnerability to manifest, being real with myself for the last few years.”
Promoting her new Ep titled titled ‘Aphro Pop’, Di’Ja emphasized on how grateful is she for her failures. Saying it teaches her what she is afraid to know. “When you are constantly getting what you want you live in a bubble,” she confessed.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) anxiety disorders affect an estimated 3.6 percent of the world’s population, and celebrities are far from immune.
By: Naa Yarteley Yartey
