“It Just Caught Up With Me”

It’s not all sunshine and rainbows every day… even if you’re Lainey Wilson.

Her new Netflix documentary “Lainey Wilson: Keepin’ Country Cool” will be out very soon on April 22nd, where she will give fans a very intimate look at her life both on and off stage, including the process she went through freezing her eggs and much more.

And during an interview with People, she was asked about a severe panic attack that occurred in 2019, which will be featured more heavily in the doc, but it sounds like it was a real “turning point” in her life, and she explained that it happened after a radio tour circuit where she felt like she went to every radio station in America (she probably pretty much did… they used to go hard on those tours before TikTok became a thing) to play her songs for radio DJs and other executives, and she just got burned out:

“That was radio tour of, actually, 2019. That’s when I was first dipping my toes into this. This is when I was going around meeting every every radio station in America, it felt like. We were out there doing four months of radio tour, and we were visiting five or six stations a day.

And I’d go in there, and just like you do on a radio tour, which I don’t even know if they do tours anymore, but you go in there, into a conference room, and you play your song. You tell the people about yourself, sometimes they’re into it, sometimes they’re on their phone, sometimes you’re singing to the carpet, sometimes they’re excited you’re there, and sometimes they just don’t give a damn, you know?

And that’s just life, I get that. But for four months solid visiting all these different radio stations, I was just exhausted, and I was burned out, and it was from having to be constantly on.”

She says it all just caught up with her, and she wanted to “curl up in a little ball” and hide from the world, something I think many fans will relate to. She encouraged anyone who has dealt with a similar circumstance to “speak up” when they’re not feeling great, because that’s something she’s had to learn the hard way:

“And it just caught up with me. It did. I just felt like, man, I just wanna curl up in a little ball right now, and I wanna shut the world out completely. But since then, I feel like I’ve learned, also, how to deal with that, and I listen to my body, and I listen to that still, small voice.

Not all the time, but I try to, and I try to communicate with myself and with the people around me too. Because if you’re not telling the people around you how you’re feeling, then nobody’s gonna know. and so I just wanna encourage people too to speak up. You know, speak up when you’re not feeling great.”

Wise words from Lainey, as always.

While her life looks incredible from the outside looking in, she’s never been shy about telling people that it’s not as perfect as they might assume, and I think we’ll get to see a lot more of that side of her in this doc, which I’m really looking forward to: