Lainey Wilson recalls great advice she was given by country music icon and former collaborator Reba McEntire.
The 33-year-old Yellowstone star got vulnerable in her new Netflix documentary Lainey Wilson: Keepin’ Country Cool, sharing the challenges she’s faced while navigating fame, especially while struggling with heavy anxiety.
At one point, she asked Reba, “I said, ‘This is a loaded question, but what do you do when you feel like you can’t go any further?’ And she said, ‘I do it for somebody else.’”
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“And that right there has put so much in perspective for me,” she shared, per Entertainment Weekly. “I get on that stage and I do it for other people.”
Lainey explained that she has struggled with depression amid her newfound fame and trying to find her “self-worth in what [she] was doing.”
“I was putting so much pressure on myself to get it right, to be right, to be perfect, to show up, sing the damn song, look good doing it,” Lainey said in the doc. “And I think once I realized that I can’t completely screw it up — like, say I hit a bad note, say I don’t look the best — I think just knowing that I found my place and I ain’t going anywhere… I feel like now that I’ve, like, put my stake in the ground, it definitely takes some stress off.”
Check out the lyrics of her new song “The Jesus I Know” with Brandon Lake.