Reneé Rapp has revealed she went through "months of ketamine therapy" after burning out.
In an interview for Paper magazine published Thursday, the singer-actress opened up about her decision to take a break amidst the tour for her debut 2023 album, Snow Angel.
"It was a mass exodus of everything that felt like I had tiny little guns pointed at every little place in my body that mattered," she recalled to the outlet. "I was like, 'This has to go away.' I was like, 'All right, I'm going off birth control. I'm gonna wean myself off medication because I don't think I need that right now. I'm gonna do crazy kinds of therapy.' I went through months of ketamine therapy. I basically did a purge of everything bad out of my body."
Ketamine therapy involves using low doses of the dissociative anaesthetic medication to manage mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Reneé didn't share any further details of the effects of the therapy.
However, she recounted how she had a "crazy dissociative" experience while performing at a festival around a year ago and realised she was "really burnt out".
"I couldn't appreciate these moments that I grinded my a*s off for. That's even more frustrating, because then I feel ungrateful and I'm not getting to experience the things I've worked really hard for. It was a reckoning in my own life. I was like, 'Okay, I am leaving this TV show,'" the 25-year-old continued, referring to her decision to leave the TV show, The Sex Lives of College Girls. "I had also just filmed two episodes of that amidst all of this f**king chaos. I was like, 'I am done with this album cycle. I'm done with this press tour.' I was like, 'I need to shed everything that is hurting me off of my body immediately.'"
Reneé's new album, Bite Me, is set to drop on 1 August.
