Kendra Wilkinson is peeling back the curtain about her struggle with depression.
The former “Girls Next Door” star, 38, says she went to the hospital last September only to return a week later, when she was placed on the antipsychotic medication Abilify and attended outpatient therapy three times a week where she explored issues connected to living in Hugh Hefner’s Playboy mansion and her divorce from former NFL player Hank Baskett.
“I was dying of depression,” she told People. “I was hitting the end of my life, and I went into psychosis. I felt like I wasn’t strong enough to live anymore.”
Wilkinson, who said “Playboy really messed my whole life up,” rose to fame as one of Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends on the reality series “The Girls Next Door.” She said her depression had a stranglehold on her, making her feel helpless.
“It was the lowest place I’ve ever been in my life. I felt like I had no future. I couldn’t see in front of my depression,” she said. “I was giving up and I couldn’t find the light. I had no hope.”
“It’s not easy to look back at my 20s. I’ve had to face my demons,” she added about her past.
Wilkinson said she has learned that it was OK to seek help.
“Anxiety and depression is real and it’s important to seek help whenever you feel like the world is caving in on you,” she said. “I thought I was strong enough. I thought I was strong enough to walk the world. I’m Kendra. I’m Kendra Wilkinson. I got this. I can walk this world. I can walk it strong. I don’t need therapy. I don’t need treatment. And I was wrong.”
Wilkinson was married to Baskett from 2009 until their divorce in 2018. They are parents to son Hank IV, 14, and Alijah, 9. She also said her insistence on addressing her problems on her own took her to a dark place before she turned to Baskett to lend a hand.
“I was struggling with depression and anxiety for so long, but I was trying to fight it on my own. I was trying to cure it on my own….
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