Lili Reinhart is getting candid about struggling with anxiety during the pandemic.
In a recent Instagram live, the 23-year-old actress opened up about how the current health crisis has caused her anxiety to go up.
“I’ll have a very simple task…to do, but you know, I don’t want to do it,†Lili said. “Say, going to the post office. Like, I really don’t want to drive to the post office. It gives me anxiety because I don’t want to have to leave my dog; I don’t want to have to deal with going out in public; I don’t want to do the mask thing. I would, but like I don’t want to put myself in a stressful environment.â€
“I get myself hyped up about very dumb things. And I do that all the time. I remind myself, ‘Why the hell are you stressing yourself out about going to the damn post office?’†she added.
Lili also opened up about finally having a chance to sit down and process all the fame and everything since starting Riverdale.
“Things took off in my career and in my life around four years ago, and I never really had a significant amount of time to just process everything, and process fame, and my kind of new world that I am living in,†Lili said. “It’s been a very important time for me—the past four months—to just process things.â€
She added that she’s been filling up her days with books, therapy and other things.
“I’ve very much been…just trying to take full advantage of this very rare time, where I don’t have much to do and deal with my own little box of trauma in the back of my head that I wouldn’t normally ever want to sift through, you know?†she shared. “I’m fortunate enough that I can have therapy every week; and I can, you know, outsource for, you know, certain methods of healing, like Reiki or something like that, maybe a lot of people don’t have the opportunity to do.â€