Simon Cowell is getting candid about his mental health struggles, sharing he has struggled with depression for several years. He ultimately sought out help from a therapist.
AGT host Simon Cowell speaks with Fox News Digital about how contestants have gotten better over the years, and how his son made him a kinder judge.Simon Cowell"I’ve suffered from depression over the years, I think we all have … But that was just something I just thought, ‘Well, that’s my character trait. You know, I get down,’ And it’s something you know, you deal with," the"
"If you’d said to me, ‘Simon, we’re going to be sitting down … in your garden, talking about mental health,’ I’d be going, ‘Have I lost my mind or something?'" Cowell revealed on the first episode of The Mirror's"Men In Mind" podcast. "I suppose COVID was the real catalyst … The whole world was affected by something. We all were afraid of – I mean, genuinely afraid of. I was petrified about it, by the way … I think it was during that time period that I started to think about things in a different way," he revealed.
However, as the world began to open back up and"things started to calm down a bit," Cowell said he realized"it was almost like ‘Now I’ve got to go from there back into the real world.’""So, I started to read up about stuff, teach myself. Then fortunately … met some friends who had therapy, benefited from therapy.
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