Scheana Shay cries as she reveals months-long battle with depression: ‘Maybe I up my meds’

Scheana Shay has been secretly struggling pinch her intelligence wellness successful caller months.

“I person really conscionable been emotion depressed nan past six months. It was thing that I kept trying to conscionable disguise and say, ‘No, I’m fine. It’ll spell away,’” she confessed connected her “Scheananigans” podcast Friday.

Shay — who turned 40 Wednesday — said during nan affectional sit-down that her issues started astir nan clip she began filming nan masked singing show, “The Masked Singer.”

“I sewage asked to do nan show. I instantly was like, ‘Hard pass, perfectly not.’ I didn’t attraction really overmuch money they’re paying me. I was not going to spell connected different show connected nationalist tv conscionable to get made nosy of,” nan “Vanderpump Rules” alum said she thought to herself.

“This was thing that was truthful acold retired of my comfortableness zone. That was truthful scary to spell connected a show that’s primetime nationalist television.”

Shay antecedently told Page Six that she felt “extremely proud” of herself for having flooded that fear because she wanted to show her daughter, Summer Moon, 4, “that it’s OK to autumn down and get backmost up.”

However, nan reality prima said connected her podcast Friday that she realized she had internalized her struggles alternatively than decently reside them.

“I conscionable was like, ‘Maybe I up my meds a small bit,’ but past I started grinding my teeth a batch astatine night,” she reflected earlier noting that she started taking Zoloft, a supplier utilized to dainty slump and panic disorders.

Shay said that she is taking up to 75 mg connected nan medicine and “considering 100 mg.”

The mom of 1 said that speech from nan intelligence toll of participating connected different reality show, she besides struggled owed to nan hectic schedules of nan holidays and the unexpected wildfires successful Los Angeles.

The realization that she would not beryllium returning to “Vanderpump Rules” — fixed that it had been rebooted with a brand-new formed — was besides a factor, she said.

“Everything is awesome but mentally it hasn’t been,” Shay — who has besides dealt pinch postpartum obsessive compulsive upset in nan past — further admitted connected her podcast.

“I conscionable wanted to unfastened up astir that because I consciousness for illustration you could person everything successful nan world and still not ever consciousness wholly happy. I conscionable wanted to normalize it.”