Meghan Trainor meets Chris Wallace emotional interview About her struggles with anxiety and vocal surgery, it ended with the veteran journalist reaching up to the table, holding her hand and asking her to believe in herself.
The singer posted Friday’s “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” The major obstacles he faced following the success of his hit single “All About That Bass” came from closing the doors instead of opening them for surgery, which could have ended his career for good.
In the midst of surgery required to repair a vocal cord hemorrhage, Trainor says he began to experience debilitating panic attacks. When Wallace began rolling out a clip that began during a live taping of the Grammy nomination she was co-hosting: “I remember losing sight. I was trying not to faint. ,
“Don’t go on TV right now,” the trainer recalled to himself. As the cameras went off, she started crying, sweating, and hospitalizing herself in front of Gayle King and others, before she learned she had an uncontrolled anxiety disorder.
“I’m a big asker for help,” the trainer told Wallace. “…I try to talk about it as much as I can, although it makes me uncomfortable and it brings up terrible memories… Just in case someone out there is like, ‘Mom, that’s what I’m talking about.’ “
At the end of her story, Wallace reached for Trainor’s hand in an emotional moment and told her she was “amazing”.
“I just hope that, I’ll love it, if you really, totally believe in yourself,” he said. “The only one who doesn’t think so, sometimes is you.”
“I know,” the trainer replied through tears, before joking: “Are you my father?”
Before ending his “therapy session,” Wallace reiterated his message to “trust you.” Because you are very, very special and very talented. I can’t wait to see where it goes next.”
During a half-hour sit-down, Trainor also talked about the “superpower” for the self-love anthem he discovered when he was 19 and realized that “All About That Bass” for his young fans. “How powerful that was. Among other topics, she discussed body image issues after giving birth to her son and the pressure to overcome her vocal cord disease when a major radio station executive criticized her for not performing against doctors’ orders. Threatened to blacklist his songs.
“I ended up listening to an old pre-recorded version of a show I’d done before and was listening and studying it on the entire plane ride and lip-syncing for the first time in my entire career. doing,” he remembered. “And I was in tears because I was afraid someone would find out I wasn’t singing.”
“I’m going to write a book about it one day and just say everything,” she told Wallace.
Trainor’s fifth major-label studio album “Takin’ It Back” was released on Friday.
