New York<\/a> with the crowd singing back the lyrics and thinking, \u2018Oh, this is really happening,'” she recalls.<\/p>\n “There were no discussions around, \u2018How is your mental health?\u2019 It was a different era. Now, artists are coming forward to talk about their struggles and concerts are rejigged.”<\/p>\n
As Ashley recounts in the interview, the hectic schedule of being a 2000s pop star \u2014 which at one point included being in three countries in one day \u2014 began to wear on her physically. “Eventually, my body just got to the point of shutdown,” she says. “I was really, really sick.”<\/p>\n
Eventually, Ashley’s health deteriorated to the point where she was admitted to the hospital in London \u2014 where doctors initially diagnosed her with suffering from a brain aneurysm.<\/p>\n
As it turns out, her symptoms were brought on by the stress of the Pussycat Dolls’ intense schedule \u2014 which was hard to bring to a full halt even as Ashley was clearly suffering. \u201cI remember saying [in the hospital], \u2018I need to get on a flight to Germany. I\u2019ve got a show to do,'” she says. “‘You gotta give me something.\u2019 That was the mentality. I was having extreme headaches, being sick. They found viral arthritis in my knee. I couldn\u2019t do anything, really.”<\/p>\n
Even when Ashley eventually left the group in 2010, she says that she was still suffering from “eczema all over my legs, shingles across my face and a stomach ulcer.”<\/p>\n
“It was a manifestation of \u2018go, go, go\u2019 for years or \u2018grind, grind, grind\u2019, an accumulation of being on the road at a time when nobody really spoke up about anything,” she says. “There was also this feeling that we could be replaced in some way.”<\/p>\n
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