Howie Mandel, talked about how he was dealing with his germaphobia. Despite he is known with his sentence, “Don’t touch me!” Mandel gave a warm hug to Reba McEntire back in 2023, when he appeared on “The Voice.”
“There isn’t a waking moment of my life when ‘we could die’ doesn’t come into my psyche,” Mandel, who is struggling with severe anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) shared. “But the solace I would get would be the fact that everybody around me was okay. It’s good to latch onto okay. But [during the pandemic] the whole world was not okay. And it was absolute hell.”
“I’m living in a nightmare,” the comedian shared. “I try to anchor myself. I have a beautiful family.”
It was 1980 when Mandel married his wife Terry, and they welcomed three beautiful children, Alex, Riley and Jackie. The comedian shared, “…I love what I do. But at the same time, I can fall into a dark depression I can’t get out of.”
“My coping skill is finding the funny. If I’m not laughing, then I’m crying. And I still haven’t been that open about how dark and ugly it really gets.”
“I’m most comfortable onstage. And when I don’t have anything to do, I turn inward, and that’s not good.”
When he talked in Kelly Clarkson show, Mandel talked about how he is dealing with his mental health struggles. “I’m neurotic, I have OCD…so people think that I’m enjoying myself, and I’m out and amongst people…I’m scared. I like to go home and just live in the fetal position,” Mandel told to Clarkson.
“It’s so funny to me, because every time I’m around you, even seeing you out of work…you’re so the opposite of what I would think.” Clarkson replied.
“I know, I’m such a joy, I’m a light, I’m an energy, and I’m stunning,” Mandel joked. “…I’ll be honest with you, I’m incredibly medicated.”
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