Lady Gaga talks to Prince William about PTSD 01:35
Story highlights
- The video is part of Prince William's Heads Together campaign
- Lady Gaga shared how she lives with PTSD, anxiety
(CNN)It was a FaceTime call. Like old time friends, Lady Gaga and Prince William opened up about mental health.
In
a video released Tuesday, the pop star joined the Duke of Cambridge's
Heads Together, a campaign he leads along with the Duchess and Prince
Harry to raise awareness on mental illness.
The stigmas or just plain fear, they said, stops many from opening up about their feelings.
"There's
a lot of shame attached to mental illness. You feel like something it's
wrong with you," Lady Gaga said from her kitchen in Los Angeles.
The
video, posted on the Royal Family's Facebook page, is the newest film
in the #oktosay series, which shows people from all walks of life
discussing their own mental health challenges.
After
sipping a cup of coffee, Lady Gaga, 31, praised the "beautiful stories"
told in the films and talked about her own struggle living with post
traumatic stress disorder.
"I
should be so happy, but you can't help it when in the morning you wake
up, you are so tired, you are so sad, you are so full of anxiety and
the shakes that you can't barely think," she told 34-year-old Prince
William.
From his study in Kensington Palace, the prince emphasized how important it can be for someone to speak up.
"It's time that everyone's(sic)speaks up," he told Lady Gaga. "Just
having a conversation with a friend or family member can make such a
difference."
William asked Lady
Gaga to join forces following the open letter she released through her
Born This Way Foundation to reveal she has lived with PTSD after she was
sexually assaulted at 19 years old.
The
pair said they want to continue working together and focus on the
youth. They made plans to have an October meeting in the UK.
The
release of the video comes just days after Prince Harry revealed that
he sought counseling four years ago to deal with the grief of losing his
mother, Princess Diana.
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