Megan Thee Stallion Gets Emotional Recalling the Moment She Realized She Needed Therapy

Megan Thee Stallion has go a renowned intelligence wellness advocator by opening up astir her idiosyncratic struggles connected her way to stardom.

The Houston rapper sat down with histrion Taraji P. Henson astatine the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation’s inaugural I Am the Table Benefit Brunch successful Maryland connected Sunday (Oct. 12), wherever Megan got affectional recalling her travel and the infinitesimal she realized she needed therapy.

“Through each of that grief, I was conscionable moving and trying to beryllium the champion Megan I could be,” she said portion getting choked up. “And I didn’t cognize I needed therapy until 1 day, I was conscionable like, ‘Damn, I’m truly sad, and it’s truly scary however bittersweet I am.’ And it was like, I didn’t attraction what happened to me. And I didn’t privation to consciousness similar that, similar I should attraction astir my life.”

Megan’s mother, Holly Thomas, passed distant successful 2019 from a encephalon tumor. Not agelong after, she endured the trauma that came with being changeable by Tory Lanez successful July 2020, which was followed by a lengthy and aggravated proceedings with plentifulness of societal media scrutiny (Lanez was sentenced to a decennary down bars).

The LGBTQ nonprofit the Trevor Project honored Megan Thee Stallion with the 2025 Mental Health Champion award. “I’m honored to person this year’s Mental Health Champion grant from The Trevor Project,” Megan wrote successful a statement. “My extremity has ever been to usage my level to assistance interruption stigmas astir intelligence wellness and supply resources for those seeking harmless spaces to person honorable and heartfelt conversations.”

The three-time Billboard Hot 100-topping rapper launched the Bad B—hes Have Bad Days Too wellness website successful 2022, which provided intelligence wellness resources, situation hotlines and therapy contacts for youth. She besides contributed to the Seize the Awkward run successful 2023, which focused connected breaking the stigma surrounding intelligence health.