Kelly Ripa Gets Candid About Social Anxiety And Depression Struggles In New Book
Olivia House
Published Jan 07, 2026
Apparently, arbitrator Kelly Ripa may be known for her bubbly television character and years spent before gatherings and cameras. By and by, notwithstanding, in her new book, she quits fooling around with the apprehension that lies under.
“I have a serious occasion of social disquiet issue, and I will commonly communicate strange or uncalled-for things when under pressure,” Ripa surrenders in her new book, Live Wire. “People feel that since I’m a cordial individual on television I’m one, in fact. Shock. That is the explanation they call it acting.”
Ripa is open in discussing the habits in which her pressure has followed her through most of her adult life, now and again regardless, coming close to debilitation.
The 51-year-old performer co-worked with Live With Regis and Kelly with the late Regis Philbin from 2001 to 2011, later co-working with Live with Michael Strahan and by and by with Ryan Seacrest. Anyway she by and by says that she and Philbin had “an extraordinarily capable working relationship,” Ripa is similarly open about the way that being a woman in media in the early aughts was so troublesome.
“Around then,” she makes out of her underlying days on Live, “a pre-#metoo #timesup time, a pre-ladies have a spot in the room where decisions are being saved a couple of moments, I. Was. Sad.”
In a comparable portion, Ripa relates a conversation she had with a trained professional, telling the clinician, “I battle with getting up in the initial segment of the day. I frequently stir crying at the possibility of going to work. I feel like I’m in genuine anguish. My hair hurts. I have no energy using any and all means. I’m immediately bothered. While I’m playing with my youngsters, I feel like I’ve failed to achieve something at work, and while I’m working, I feel like I’ve failed to chip away at something for my kids. I cry in the shower. I wail until quite a bit later. I cry behind the stage. I from time to time need to cry in the show. Now and again I feel like I can’t unwind.”
Ripa clarifies her fights with a lively care, saying “I question whether any of my high level social disquiet issue, my low-working negligible conduct condition, my wanton thoughtless agoraphobia, my unreasonable mental self view unhinged gaudiness, my narcissism that has not progressed to risk, or my conceivable unseen ADHD* has affected my kids, but they have all the earmarks of being doing consummate.” Under the reference mark, Ripa adds a discourse: “All psychological issues above are self-broke down.”
Ripa actually tended to ET about the book’s revelations, getting a handle on that cutoff setting has shown extremely obliging in lightening further mental health issues, self-examined or not.
Kelly Ripa Shares She Has a ‘Severe Case of Social Anxiety Disorder’ in New Memoir
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“We are ready to say, ‘Charitable, If it’s not too much trouble, acknowledge my statements of regret, let me see what we can do, let me sort a technique for working that out,” Ripa told ET’s Rachel Smith. “I will twist myself into a pretzel to make things hesitant for me so you can get the best outcome. At the point when you gain capability with the power of ‘No, that doesn’t work for me,’ it disregards all trade… the singular requirements to either submit or move along and that has been an amazing benefit to me.”
In her book, Ripa similarly elucidates the habits where that treatment has helped her compass for extra reactions, adding that she’s been seeing an expert for over 10 years.
“I had persevered through decade focusing in on my marriage, work life, youthfulness, and all that I expected to fix about myself,” she creates, but explaining that she and her soul mate, Engraving Consuelos, continue to go all around regarding the matter of couples treatment. In light of everything, her marriage stays strong.
“I consider this book really as a love letter to Stamp,” Ripa told ET. “That is the explanation I committed the book to him, since he genuinely has walked around most of my adult presence with me. He really is an especially unbelievable life partner, he’s an uncommon father, he’s a remarkable individual, he’s a phenomenal sidekick. That is the best thing he is, a phenomenal friend. That is the thing, if you have him as a buddy, you’ve caused an uproar in and out of town.”