Chris Rock Reveals He’s In Therapy 7 Hours A Week Due To COVID-19 Pandemic
While speaking with CBS Sunday Morning‘s Gayle King, Chris Rock revealed that for 7 hours a week, he’s in therapy due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 55-year-old famed comedian and actor says, “I learned that I could be very hard on myself. Like really, really hard on myself, and I need to relax. And I need to listen, I need to take chances.”
Rock says since the onset of the pandemic, he’s increased his therapy visits to about seven hours a week. He adds, “You have to tell the truth. You have to tell – you have to go into therapy prepared to tell the worst part of yourself every week, you know?”
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Rock’s reveal follows that to The Hollywood Reporter in September, when he announced his diagnosis with nonverbal learning disorder (NVLD) this year after a nine-hour series of cognitive tests. Then he told THR about his therapy, explaining how he’s working out his childhood traumas. “I thought I was actually dealing with it, and the reality is I never dealt with it. The reality was the pain and the fear that that brought me, I was experiencing it every day.”