Hello and welcome to Happy Place with me, Fern Cotton. This is the show that

encourages vocalizing your struggles so we all feel less alone. Today I'm hanging

out with Adam Lambert. A lot of times we mistake you know how we're feeling

or our symptoms and we just make it circumstantial like oh I'm just stressed

because of this but if you start really looking at a pattern if it's something

that happens to you a lot maybe you're somebody that has anxiety to deal with

and maybe you should consider getting some extra help with that. I had my fair share

of different anxiety triggers over the years but I didn't know to call it that. I

didn't realize that that's what it was I was dealing with. I thought I was just

busy or stressed and the more I started reading about things and I'm doing some

therapy and talking to people I was like oh wow I have anxiety. Adam is a

Grammy-nominated pop icon. We first saw him on our screens on American Idol in

2009 and since 2011 he's been the frontman of Queen. I think it's very fair to

say that his career has absolutely skyrocketed but his mental health and

confidence in himself has fluctuated like it does for all of us. So now he's

filmed Britain Get Singing, a Christmas campaign to raise money for ITV's

mental health charity Britain Get Talking. I feel incredibly lucky to have

napt some time with Adam while he was in the UK. We met at a very cool office

space in Kings Cross in London and he talked really for the first time

publicly about some of the challenges he's had with his mental health over the

years and I was so grateful that he was willing to open up because I really do

think that what he says in this conversation will resonate with so many people.

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