Milania Giudice is putting herself first.
Several weeks after The Real Housewives of New Jersey star made headlines over a family altercation with mom Teresa Giudice and older sister Gia Giudice, the 20-year-old shared for the first time that she’s been quietly navigating a diagnosis with bipolar disorder.
“I do struggle with mental health issues,” Milania told followers in an Oct. 12 Instagram video. “I am bipolar. I struggle with depression, anxiety, PTSD and ADHD and I am not ashamed of any of my mental health disorders because I’m currently at a treatment center, my mom’s on her way to come visit me today.”
“I do work on myself, but you know what?” the Bravo star continued in her latest update, “I am only 20 years old and this summer hit me like a bus.”
Indeed, just two months after Milania was arrested for assault in May—she has yet to enter a plea and the case remains ongoing—her best friend Victoria Zardoya died suddenly in July.
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“A lot of things happened in a short amount of time and I’m trying to just process everything,” the University of Tampa student noted. “It’s really hard being in the public light while you go through things in life.”
Which is why Milania, whose manager confirmed in September that she was seeking treatment, now wants to publicly apologize to Teresa, sisters Gia, Gabriella and Audriana, as well as dad Joe Giudice and the rest of her friends and family as she focuses on getting her mental health back on track.
“I just want to say I’m sorry because I was grown up on pure respect, love and I just haven’t been showing the Milania that I want to show and I want to do better,” she added. “I want to continue working on myself and try to completely change everything I’ve been posting and everything because I want to help people in life.”
This isn’t the first time Milania has apologized to those closest to her amid her recent struggles. Just last week, she acknowledged the support she’s received from Teresa following an extremely trying year.
“The older I get the more I appreciate how I was raised and who I was raised by,” Milania wrote in her Oct. 6 Instagram Story. “You are the best, sorry mother.”
The young star’s loved ones were quick to rally around her with support.
“All of us are doing everything we can to support her as she navigates an incredibly difficult time in her life, particularly following the devastating loss of her best friend, Victoria,” Milania’s manager and longtime family friend Maria DeSantis told E! News in a Sept. 24 statement. “She is currently surrounded by people who love her and is under the care of professionals who are working with her and her family.”
Of course, Milania certainly isn’t alone. Keep reading to see more stars who’ve gotten candid about taking care of the mental health.
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“After that, I was like, ‘Man, I got to really just hold myself accountable and take care of my health,’” he said on an episode of The Breakfast Club. “I don’t never want to have an episode again. I’m gonna see a therapist, [even] if I have to take medicine.”
In addition to his hope that his vulnerability would help others in need, Gucci Mane said that his kids Ice Davis and Iceland Ka’oir Davis with wife Keyshia Ka’Oir inspired him to seek help amid his episode.
“My wife was pregnant with my little boy,” he continued. “I don’t want to raise a family and then my mental health [is] gone. What if I have an episode I can’t come back from? So, I just started doing the work and started seeking help.”
“I do struggle with mental health issues,” Milania told followers in an Oct. 12 Instagram video. “I am bipolar. I struggle with depression, anxiety, PTSD and ADHD and I am not ashamed of any of my mental health disorders because I’m currently at a treatment center, my mom’s on her way to come visit me today.”
The then-20-year-old added that “this summer hit me like a bus” after Milania was arrested for assault in May and her best friend Victoria Zardoya died suddenly in July.
“A lot of things happened in a short amount of time and I’m trying to just process everything,” the University of Tampa student noted. “It’s really hard being in the public light while you go through things in life.”
“I know that I hated my body,” Penn told The Guardian in April 2025, “and simply wanted a different one.”
In response to the weight he gained following his parents’ divorce, he added, “There was just a period where, coming out of depression and isolation, I was jumping wilfully into, but also being thrust into, this world where the more conventionally beautiful I seemed, the more successful I might be, the more value I might have.”
Despite the mental struggles, though, Penn credited his ability to persist to his spirituality.
“That is what allowed me to persevere through the disillusionment, all the things I’d been grappling with,” he explained, “and then come back to it all, but with hopefully some kind of inner transformation.”
“Some may call it an eating disorder, I just call it my life,” she said on the The Funny Thing Is podcast. “My drug of choice was always food. I did crazy s–t with it.”
She added, “I would over-exercise, and there was a sprinkle of bulimia in there.”
Though she has confessed her struggles with her diet, she has also shared her progress with her health and fitness goals.
“When I was 23, I cut all sugar out of my diet, quit drinking, and found yoga and breathing and stretching,” she told Bon Appétit in 2017. “That’s the best Ritalin you could give anyone.”
She continued, “I’m an actress with food issues and body image issues—that’s real. But I’m trying to heal that part of myself and also handle my physical issues naturally by putting the best things into my body.”
“It’s very difficult to speak out about it, even to your most trusted people,” she shared on her Candace Cameron Bure Podcast. “At least for me, I feel like I should be strong enough to overcome that and then it feels so weak.”
“When people ask me what I’d say to somebody looking for advice on mental health, the only thing I can say is patience,” she told Vogue. “I had patience with myself. I didn’t take that last step. I waited. Things fade.”
“Sometimes I don’t know what’s worse trying to avoid the virus or the waves of depression that come with this new norm,” she shared on Twitter. Katy talked about how she manages those waves, writing, “There is not really anywhere to go besides my car. So I go to my car a lot. That is my safe space.”
She recalled after her panic attacks started recurring, she, “finally kind of got the information that I needed about it.”
“For me, I have good days and I have some really anxious days, so I’m really off and on,” Kendall expressed, adding that was why she wanted to become involved with the movement. “What I hope to accomplish is for people to not feel as alone.”
“We all go thru the sludge/shit and depression never discriminates. Took me a long time to realize it but the key is to not be afraid to open up,” he wrote on Twitter. “Especially us dudes have a tendency to keep it in. You’re not alone.”
Taraji even started The Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation, which works to reduce the stigma around mental health in the African American community and also works to increase the number of Black therapists.
“I was touring without stage fright for the first time,” she told Rolling Stone in May 2025. “There was a hook around my guts and everyone in the room was having the same feeling, [like] there’d been a huge pressure change. It made me realize how much I love and kind of need that very deep, visceral response to feel my music.”
She added that her renewed focus on her mental health, as well as her decision to stop taking birth control, caused her understanding of her own gender to become “more expansive.”
“I felt like stopping taking my birth control, I had cut some sort of cord between myself and this regulated femininity,” she continued. “It sounds crazy, but I felt that all of a sudden, I was off the map of femininity. And I totally believed that that allowed things to open up.”
“I would have told you three years ago my anxiety started during my divorce in Covid,” Carly said an August 2025 episode of Bunnie Xo’s Dumb Blonde podcast. “But I’ve had crippling OCD since I was a child.”
“I got really conditioned over the last 10 years to just zip it up and deal with it, and it just kind of got to a place where a couple years ago I just had to really start back into therapy, start really, like, trying to figure out all of these different things,” she continued. “Like, recognizing OCD was something—no, that didn’t come in 2020, that’s been there since I was 6 or 7.”
She has advocated for finding the methods that help you best, which for her, according to Health, can include medication, listing ten positive things in her life for every negative thought and getting plenty of exercise.
“It got easier and easier to say it aloud every time,” she wrote in an open letter to Glamour in 2017. “I want people to know it can happen to anybody and I don’t want people who have it to feel embarrassed or to feel alone.”
“I relied too much on love, too much on other people to make me happy, and I needed to learn to be happy by myself,” Cara told the publication, via W. “So now I can be by myself, I can be happy. It took me a long time.”
“If you’re afraid to ask for help, don’t be,” she continued. “u don’t have to be in constant pain & u can process trauma. I’ve got a lot of work to do but it’s a start to even be aware that it’s possible.”
She also continually reminds fans that working on your mental health is an ongoing process where there will be some bad days, previously writing on Instagram, “A reminder to anyone struggling out there – this life is a journey with tons of ups and downs but you can’t give up.”
Back in 2013, Zendaya wrote on her now-defunct app that she struggled with anxiety after an appearance on Ellen where her mic went out. She has since learned ways to manage those feelings, adding, “Sometimes you just have to take a step back so things stop stressin’ you.”
“I found out I do suffer from mental health issues,” she shared. “I got on the right medication, and my life has been completely changed.”
“I have struggled for a long time, both being public and not public about my mental health issues or my mental illness,” she said during the Global Changemakers Award at Children Mending Hearts’ Empathy Rocks fundraiser in 2018. “But, I truly believe that secrets keep you sick.”
