Luke Combs is used to making history in country music, and he's about to do it again. The North Carolina native will headline one of the four nights of Lollapalooza, marking the first time a country music artist has closed the four-night music festival, per Whiskey Riff.
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Combs is part of an extraordinary lineup, which also includes Olivio Rodrigo, Tyler the Creator, Sabrina Carpenter, A$AP Rocky, Korn, Cage the Elephant, Tanner Adell, Colby Acuff and more.
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Luke Combs' Brave Honesty About His Mental Health
Combs recently bravely opened up about his own struggles with his mental health. The 35-year-old reveals he struggles with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, commonly known as OCD.
"It's something that in some way I at least think about every day," Combs explains on 60 Minutes Australia. "There's some tinge of it to some extent every day ... The craziness of the particular disorder that I have, it's the way to get out of it. It doesn't matter what the thoughts are. You giving any credence to what the thoughts are is irrelevant and only fuels you having more of them."
Fortunately, Combs has learned how to cope with his OCD struggles, although there is no specific cure.
"It held me back so many times in my life where you're trying to accomplish something, you're doing really great, and then you have a flare-up, and it just like ruins your whole life for six months," Combs admits. "When it happens now, I'm not afraid of it because I'm not like, 'What if I'm like this forever?' I know I'm not going to be like this forever now."
Combs has learned coping mechanisms for his OCD, and now wants to help others do the same.
"I definitely want to spend some time at some point in my life doing some outreach to kids that deal with this," the altruistic singer says. "'Cause it held me back so many times in my life .... It's possible to continue to live your life and be really successful and have a great family and achieve your dreams while also dealing with things that you don't want to be dealing with."
