Katy Perry believes therapy has helped her "incredibly".
Katy Perry
The 'Chained to the Rhythm' hitmaker has been seeing a counsellor for five years and she finds it incredibly beneficial being able to open up to someone without feeling judged.
She said: "I've been going to therapy for about five years and I think it has really helped my mental health incredibly.
"And it's a really wonderful thing to be able to talk to someone who doesn't judge you, because I don't think a lot of people have that."
The 32-year-old singer can't understand why people think looking after mental health is "weird", and she actively urges others to take care of themselves in the way they worry about their physical health.
Speaking on KIIS FM's Kyle and Jackie O show, she said: "I encourage it. People think it's weird or they think yoga is weird. No, there is nothing weird about taking care of your physical and mental health, that's awesome!
"I have nothing to hide and I think that in a way, if I let down my guard and lift the veil on what people think that people in my position are or look like, and maybe if they can see that maybe we are all just the same, we are just like anyone else."
The 'Swish Swish' singer - whose real name is Kathryn Hudson - previously admitted she created her pop persona because she was scared of being herself.
She said: "A lot of people are living in fear from something that happened in their childhood, or some form of PTSD they picked up along the way, and I created this wonderful character called Katy Perry that I very much am, and can step into all the time, but I created that character out of protection.
"I was scared that if you saw me, Katheryn Hudson, the girl wearing the Bioré strip on my nose, you'd be like, 'That's not glamorous'. It was me going, 'OK, I've been upset my whole childhood so I'm going to show the world I am something, that I am going to do something and that I am enough'. I didn't want to be Katheryn Hudson. I hated that, it was too scary for me, so I decided to be someone else."
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