Gloria Estefan only started therapy after her mother’s death

• Gloria Estefan has discussed how her mother’s passing inspired her to begin treatment.
• She didn’t seek the necessary support until her mother Gloria Fajardo passed away in 2017.
• “I needed it after I lost my mom.”

The 65-year-old celebrity said that after experiencing trauma and sadness throughout her life, she didn’t seek the necessary support until her mother Gloria Fajardo passed away in 2017.

According to Yahoo! Entertainment, she said at the 2023 Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston this week: “I understood therapy and I knew the value of it.

“Despite the fact that I went through very difficult things in my life, I didn’t feel I needed therapy at the time.

“I needed it after I lost my mom.”

She revealed therapy has “really worked in the last few years”.

She added: “I think it is very important nowadays, as I see anxiety growing in our youth, that we focus on our mental health because there’s a lot of information, a lot of negativity, a lot of difficult things. We have to learn to tune it out.”

The ‘Hoy’ singer also noted how “helpful” meditation has been, as it “quiets those voices that we all are hearing constantly”.

She continued: “I focus on the things that fulfill me: my family, my grandson — he’s 10 years old and is the light of my life and spending time with him is the most incredible thing for me. So I put the phone away.”

Gloria spoke openly about the impact of her mother’s passing as well as the bus accident in 1990, where she just avoided having her chord “severed” by a millimetre.

She had to “give [her] body that was no longer there”, and and suffered with depression over not being able to complete small tasks.

She said: “I couldn’t turn over, I couldn’t sit up. I couldn’t be by myself.”

She gave herself 10 days to grieve, adding: “And then I said, ‘You know what? Okay, that’s enough. I’ve given myself enough of a pity party. What do I need to do?’ ”

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