By Brooks Welch

On a recent episode of the daytime television show ‘The Real,’ long-time co-host Adrienne Bailon, most known for being apart of the Cheetah Girls, opened up about her struggles with severe anxiety.

During the second part of a truth telling segment on ‘The Real’ called “I’ve Always Wanted To Know,” co-host Jeannie Mai Jenkins asked Bailon, “What is the deepest secret that you have not spoken about on the show?”

Bailon answered, “I don’t know which season it was, probably two or three years ago,” the singer and actress confessed. “I was dealing with anxiety on a level that like….I had to have Sonya (producer for ‘The Real’) call the medic a few times.”

She admitted to feeling embarrassed or “stupid.”

“They would, like, rush me off and you’d be like ‘what’s happening?’ It would be that I was having panic attacks – like, really really bad panic attacks,” she continued.

After having a panic attack on the show, she educated the audience on how being in the same environment after having a panic attack can trigger another one while in the same place. For Bailon, this environment was the set of ‘The Real’

She told her co-hosts that every time they walked out for an entire season, she would focus on reading the prompter, although sometimes she could “barely see.”

In reflecting on those overwhelming and terrifying moments as a television personality, Bailon shared how she coped.

“I thank God for the power of our minds and recognizing. I just got to a point where I’m like, if my mind can convince me that I’m having a heart attack my mind can also convince me that I’m fine.”