{"id":389961,"date":"2026-04-13T15:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/389961\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:04:19","slug":"i-had-mental-health-issues-crayon-opens-up-on-family-industry-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/389961\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I had mental health issues&#8217; &#8211; Crayon opens up on family, industry pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian singer Charles Chibueze Chukwu, popularly known as Crayon, has opened up about his past struggle with mental health and how he was able to overcome it.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a livestream with Caterefe on Thursday night, Crayon disclosed that he had mental health issues in 2022 due to pressure from family and the music industry.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that he was under intense stress because he was trying to meet up with family demands as well as earn a top spot in the music industry.<\/p>\n<p>The music star stated he was hospitalised for therapy for a long time after which he returned with the hit songs \u2018Labalaba\u2019 and \u2018Overloading\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Crayon said, \u201cIn 2022, I had mental health issues from all sort of stress; family, industry, trying to be number one stress. I was hospitalised for a long therapy session, then I came out and dropped Labalaba and Overloading.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigerian singer Charles Chibueze Chukwu, popularly known as Crayon, has opened up about his past struggle with mental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[185807,163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":{"0":"post-389961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-crayon","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}