Ryan Adams took to social media calling out those who “exploit my struggle with mental health” after he said he was “scared” he would lose his home, studio, and label in the coming months.
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Adams posted a response to a Variety article that detailed comments the singer-songwriter has made in recent weeks about being “months from losing my label, studio, and my home.”
“Isn’t it interesting that a magazine like @variety won’t cover my music - But they will exploit my struggle with mental health and trying to right my career,” Adams wrote in a lengthy new Instagram post.
“I’m only cancelled until they can disparage me. To me that doesn’t feel like punishment. Trust me I do that to myself more than anyone ever will. It just feels like abuse. Like a cycle of abuse that never stops the wheel keeps spinning and every day I try and jump off and find some balance.”
Back in February 2019, Adams was accused of sexual misconduct after a New York Times report detailed the accounts of several women who alleged he used his fame and status to abuse them. The report said that Adams had offered several women his support to help them in the music industry if they agreed to his sexual advances.
In July 2020, Adams published an apology letter saying "there are no words to express how bad I feel about the ways I've mistreated people through my life and career. All I can say is that I'm sorry.”
Adams continued: "To a lot of people this will just seem like the same empty bull**** apology that I've always used when I was called out, and all I can say is, this time it is different. Having truly realized the harm that I've caused, it wrecked me, and I'm still reeling from the ripples of devastating effects that my actions triggered."
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In his recent Instagram post, Adams admitted that “it feels like I’m not a human being.”
“Music was my way to cope with my depression,” Adams wrote. “It was a way to live and I keep trying to make it right, but every day is a new door slammed in my face” Earlier in his post, Adams revealed that his publicist quit as he says it’s “another in a line so long now that sort of thing I’ve lost count."
He continued: “Somehow it’s not ok for me to come in here and tell you about my life. That I’m sorry and scared. Broke and heartbroken about Theo. I guess it’s too real. I thought that’s what RockNRoll was. Uncomfortable. Like an old wooden rollercoaster. I’m not the first person with depression and mental health issues to play a guitar. But some days it sure feels like that.”
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