Missy Elliot
Award-winning rapper Missy Elliot exudes confidence on stage, but she’s fought a mental battle with anxiety since she was young. “I was always feisty, always that kid that would be on the porch with a hairbrush singing or rapping,” she said in a 2017 interview with Billboard.
“I got more shy as I got older and realized people could be laughing at me, or judging me.” In fact, the night before her 2015 Superbowl halftime cameo performance, she had a full-blown panic attack. “Like, IVs in my arm, everything,” she recalled. “Nobody knew.”
