Ella Langley is opening up about her friendship with Miranda Lambert. Langley was not quite six years old when Lambert's debut Kerosene album came out in 2005. Langley grew up admiring Lambert, something she does even more now that they are good friends.
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"She is who she is and she doesn't apologize for that," Langley tells People. "She stands up for herself, but she also stands up for others she believes in. And that's just always been apparent by watching her as a young artist. So I'm really grateful to get to work alongside her."
Langley got to perform with Lambert at the recent 2025 ACM Awards. The two performed "Kerosene," the title track of Lambert's first record, and Lambert's first Top 20 single. Their performance was part of an amazing night for Langley, who also performed her own single, "Weren't For The Wind," and received the most awards of the evening, with five trophies.
"There's a ridiculous amount of highlights of that whole entire week," Langley reflects. "But performing 'Kerosene,' I already knew that I was going to do 'Weren't For The Wind' but when we got asked to do 'Kerosene,' it just made the night so much better for me because I got that initial fear out, and that was our first time performing together. It felt like a 12-year-old kid living her biggest dream ever on stage."
Ella Langley Opens Up About Her Mental Health
The ACM Awards might have been a dream come true for Langley, but it also brought Langley her own share of struggles. The Alabama native bravely opens up about her struggles that week, as she deals with her own mental health.
"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," Langley admits to Audacy. "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."
Langley is opening up about her own challenges, in hopes of inspiring others who might be experiencing the same thing.
"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 ... I think it's just about being grateful," she says.
