Chappel Roan, 28, who won her first Grammy as best new artist in 2025, has been outspoken about having bipolar disorder.
“I’m diagnosed bipolar 2, and it’s been pretty hard to keep it together and release these songs,” she shared on Instagram in 2022 as she was launching her independent career. “I’ve been on meds, and I was in full swing hypomania when ‘Naked in Manhattan’ released, which I’m out of now. And the weeks leading up to and through the ‘My Kink Is Karma’ release campaign, I’ve been in intensive outpatient therapy/individual therapy four days a week, and it’s definitely been difficult to balance promoting and being consistently active on social media.”
About her bipolar diagnosis, she said, “I don’t really talk about it much, but it affects me daily and is a pretty big part of my music. I’m in a healthy spot, just wanted to share and I think it’s important to talk about mental health.”
Speaking to Vanity Fair in 2023, she said, “It took me two years to find the right medications, and holy cow, it was so hard because I just felt, I was like, ‘Is it the bipolarity? Is it the meds not working? Is it my period?’ There were so many things that I was so confused. And finally I found a place that I feel good about my meds.”
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