{"id":718551,"date":"2026-04-10T17:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/718551\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T17:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:12:18","slug":"i-had-mental-health-issues-crayon-opens-up-on-family-industry-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/718551\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I had mental health issues&#8217; &#8211; Crayon opens up on family, industry pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian singer Charles Chibueze Chukwu, popularly known as Crayon, has opened up about his past struggle with mental health and how he was able to overcome it.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a livestream with Caterefe on Thursday night, Crayon disclosed that he had mental health issues in 2022 due to pressure from family and the music industry.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that he was under intense stress because he was trying to meet up with family demands as well as earn a top spot in the music industry.<\/p>\n<p>The music star stated he was hospitalised for therapy for a long time after which he returned with the hit songs \u2018Labalaba\u2019 and \u2018Overloading\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Crayon said, \u201cIn 2022, I had mental health issues from all sort of stress; family, industry, trying to be number one stress. I was hospitalised for a long therapy session, then I came out and dropped Labalaba and Overloading.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigerian singer Charles Chibueze Chukwu, popularly known as Crayon, has opened up about his past struggle with mental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":718552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[36],"tags":[63186,210,517,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-718551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-crayon","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}