• Gloria Estefan revealed that she went into therapy.
• Estefan praised treatment as having “really worked in the last few years”.
• She said that her grandson is the light of her life.

Gloria Estefan claims that going into therapy was prompted by the loss of her mother.

The Grammy-winning singer revealed on Tuesday at the 2023 Simmons Leadership Summit that despite going through her fair share of stress and sadness, she didn’t consider treatment necessary until her mother, Gloria Fajardo, passed away.

“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,” Estefan said at the event in Boston, Yahoo! Entertainment reported. “I needed it after I lost my mom.”

Estefan praised treatment as having “really worked in the last few years” and claimed that her choice had been successful.

Continued the “Hoy” singer: “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.”

Estefan said that meditation has also been “helpful to me, because it quiets those voices that we all are hearing constantly.

“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.”

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