--- title: Ellie Goulding Opens Up About Having Panic Attacks description: Pop star Ellie Goulding recently began her Delirium tour, but this week she made headlines for a different reason. In her interview for FLARE magazine's summer cover story, Goulding discussed her past struggle with mental illness. canonical: https://time.com/4342323/ellie-goulding-mental-health/ author: Megan Lasher article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-19T21:18:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:32.498Z og:title: Ellie Goulding Opens Up About Her Panic Attacks og:description: 'I couldn’t go to the studio unless I was lying down in the car' og:url: https://time.com/4342323/ellie-goulding-mental-health/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9e201031dfbbae7/698894083c1639b61445d565/ellie-goulding.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4200 og:image:height: 2363 og:image:alt: The 58th GRAMMY Awards og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ellie Goulding Opens Up About Her Panic Attacks twitter:description: 'I couldn’t go to the studio unless I was lying down in the car' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9e201031dfbbae7/698894083c1639b61445d565/ellie-goulding.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ellie Goulding Opens Up About Her Panic Attacks > Sponsored content. 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Axelle/Bauer-Griffin—FilmMagic/Getty by [Megan Lasher](https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/) ## Megan Lasher May 19, 2016 9:18 PM UTC Pop star Ellie Goulding recently began her Delirium tour, but this week she [made headlines](http://metro.co.uk/2016/05/18/ellie-goulding-admits-to-cognitive-behavioural-therapy-to-battle-crippling-panic-attacks-5889090/) for a different reason: In her interview for [_FLARE_ magazine’s summer cover story](http://www.flare.com/celebrity/cover-stars/ellie-goulding-interview-summer-2016/), Goulding discussed her past struggle with panic attacks. Goulding said that after dealing with panic attacks in her career, she coped “\[b\]y having cognitive behavioural therapy. I was skeptical at first because I’d never had therapy, but not being able to leave the house was so debilitating,” she told _FLARE._ “And this was when my career was really taking off. My surroundings would trigger a panic attack, so I couldn’t go to the studio unless I was lying down in the car with a pillow over my face. I used to beat myself up about it.” [_Follow Motto on Facebook._](https://www.facebook.com/mottoworkplaylive/) Things have gotten better for the English singer: “There were a couple of times after I released _Delirium_ when I was doing promo and thought, ‘Oh god, it’s coming back, it’s coming back,’ but it didn’t. 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