Bipolar disorder is a lifelong mental health condition<\/a> characterised by alternating periods of intense emotional highs and deep emotional lows.<\/p>\nSpeaking on Instagram, Hill acknowledged that his diagnosis had been long overdue.<\/p>\n
“I feel like I had known for like the past few years, but I didn’t want to admit to it because I didn’t want to have to take medication and, I don’t know, have people think different of me,” he said.<\/p>\n
The musician said he had previously felt that his life posed enough challenges without the addition of a mental health problem.<\/p>\n
“I mean, I’m already black and gay, like, damn, God,” he joked. “Gay, bipolar, like I’m living life on extreme hard mode. <\/p>\n
“But on a serious note, I’m doing much better, I’m feeling better, I’m creating freely, and there’s less fear in my heart. I’m just smelling the roses.”<\/p>\n
The video statement saw Hill looking healthy, addressing the camera in front of a clear blue sky. He read from pre-prepared notes, acknowledging that he felt “awkward” and nervous to be talking after an extended break from social media.<\/p>\n
The Atlanta-raised artist is best known for his breakout hit Old Town Road – a mixture of country and rap that spent a record 19 weeks at number one on the US charts, and won him two Grammys.<\/p>\n
He followed it up with a series of genre-confounding singles like Montero (Call Me By Your Name) and Industry Baby, that established him both as a queer icon and a master manipulator of TikTok’s algorithm.<\/p>\n
In 2023, Elton John hand-picked the musician to perform ahead of him on Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage.<\/p>\n
Towards the end of his video statement, Hill said he wasn’t ready to return to pop stardom “just yet” – but promised there was “new music on the way”<\/p>\n
“I’ve been doing music for seven years now,” Lil Nas X said in switching gears near the end of the clip. “I wanted to let you guys know there is new music on the way.”<\/p>\n
He finished by addressing his fans directly.<\/p>\n
“We’ve been through so much together. Thank you guys for holding me down.<\/p>\n
“I love you and all I want to do is continue to try to make you proud and make myself proud.”<\/p>\n
If you are affected by the issues in this story, sources of support are available on BBC Action Line.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Grammy Award-winner was eligible because of a subsequent diagnosis of bipolar disorder, with the judge noting Hill’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-645154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}