Awards week is supposed to be a momentous occasion for artists, especially for someone like Ella Langley. She led the ACM Awards in nominations for the proceedings, and she also walked away with the most hardware that night. You would think Langley would be beaming with joy in these moments, maybe even crying from the flood of emotions.
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However, pictures from the night show her mostly fine, not miserable, but certainly not thrilled as we'd expect. People certainly had their fair share of speculation. But Ella definitely wasn't ungrateful for these opportunities. On the contrary, she felt incredibly blessed by all the praise and acceptance. Instead, she recently reveals that she had been going through the ringer mentally. On a night when Langley was supposed to be jumping for joy, her mental health couldn't have been worse.
Ella Langley Dishes on Her Mental Health Amidst ACM Awards Wins
When speaking with the press during her big ACM Awards week, Langley opens up about her mental health woes getting the best of her. "I won't lie, this last week has been probably one of the toughest mental health weeks I've had in a long, in a long time. Which is crazy because so many good things are happening, so many things I've prayed for and dreamed about. It's just a struggle, it's a disease in my family, really," Ella explains. "I think it's important to talk about it and to share that, just because I might seem like that, I'm on top of a mountain right now doesn't look like that all the time."
And also, it's okay to be two things. I was just actually talking to Lainey [Wilson] and Miranda [Lambert] about this. I was like, 'My impostor syndrome right now. Like, what do you mean? How can I be in the same category as you two? That doesn't make sense to me,'" Ella continues.
Ultimately, Langley is simply trying to remain grounded and grateful, despite all of her mental health battles. "I think it's just about being grateful. I think at the end of the day, just spinning it back on being grateful for what God's giving me and the places that I get to be in," Ella emphasizes. "Hopefully, my honesty and realness rub off on some little girl or little boy who wants to do this and gets to see that it's tough, but tough things are worth going through if you want it bad enough."
