In an interview with Yendi Phillipps on Sunday’s airing of the Odyssey, Iké, 27, broke her silence about her mental health struggle and how it threatened to halt her music career.
“I just learned a couple weeks ago that I have bipolar disorder, I was formally diagnosed with that,” she revealed. “It’s something that I have been experiencing for a while and didn’t even recognize what was happening to me. Like after an extreme high or coming off of a stage or learning about a big accomplishment, I almost always go into feeling depressed.”
Lila, who rose to fame with songs like Where I’m Coming From, Second Chance, and I Spy, explained that prior to her diagnosis she never understood why she would have these erratic mood swings.
“Everything that you’ve accomplished and all of your skills and your talent, it just gets clouded, like I just can’t see beyond it. You get extremely low and you just don’t want to do it anymore,” she said.