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Lewis Capaldi has opened up for the first time about his long-awaited return to performing, admitting he genuinely thought he’d never set foot on stage again after his public battle with anxiety and mental health.
Speaking candidly during a live stream with fans, the Someone You Loved singer shared that he is no longer taking the antidepressant Sertraline, having worked through his struggles with therapy and self-care.
“I am doing much better. I’m not on antidepressants anymore,” he revealed.
Referencing his new No.1 single Survive, Capaldi joked: “It was hard to get off it. You could say I’ve survived getting off Sertraline, but let’s not get into that. This is happy stuff. I’m trying to share less.”
The Scottish star reflected on the moment at Glastonbury in 2023 when he realised, he couldn’t continue. “I think I probably knew two songs into the set at Glastonbury that I couldn’t do it,” he said.
“I was on stage and I was on complete autopilot. In my head I was feeling a thousand miles away and I watched it back and I feel sad. As far as I was concerned, I was done indefinitely.”
Capaldi admitted he hadn’t originally taken a break to “get better,” but simply because he needed to “release the pressure valve a little bit.”
“The thing that I wanted to do the most made me feel the worst,” he confessed. “Watching it, I just see someone who is completely not there and having the worst moment of his life.
“I was lying my way through therapy before. I was telling them what I thought they wanted to hear or things I’d read online, so I could get out of there as quickly as possible.”
However, he says his outlook has changed. “I struggle most weeks to get myself up and go to therapy, even to go to open my laptop and talk to the therapist can be really difficult,” he admitted.
But now, after months of hard work, Capaldi is feeling hopeful: “I’ve felt the best I’ve felt in a long time through therapy,” he said.
Fans around the world have rallied to support him, eagerly awaiting his full return to the stage in the months ahead.
