Carly Pearce

I'm not like that at all.

I'm like, I loved it, but what I get to do now, it was like a trade-off, but I still had a lot of normalcy, but I also got to experience things that like a lot of kids didn't get to experience.

I wasn't rebellious, really.

I had parents that kind of like, if I wanted to say shit, I could say shit.

If I wanted to drink, it was like drinking the house.

I love your parents.

They're really, I mean, honestly, it made like space for me to not have to rebel.

Like a lot of my friends wanted to come over because my parents were like,

understanding it's not like they were like here go out and never you know text us or whatever but um when I got to Pigeon Forge I was 17 and everybody else was like in their late 20s so you know I learned like what power hour of drinking was and I learned the hard way of like because I just never I never really cared until I yeah like got of age because my parents just allowed me to

I've had to understand, because I would have told you like three years ago, my anxiety started during my divorce in COVID.

But I've had crippling OCD since I was a child.

So like checking my backpack over and over and over, checking my alarm over and over and over, making sure that my mom, are you sure that...

everything's in my bag are you sure and my mom would just try to calm me down or I would freak out over storms and I remember her taking me to the local library to meet a meteorologist to like try to calm that so I I've had to I've had anxiety my whole life um I still struggle with OCD I I I think it just really came to a head of me wanting to do something about it during COVID

A thousand percent.

And I feel like that was like just the being taken off the road, going through a public divorce.

It was like, I think my body just had like a visceral reaction of like, Oh my God.

And then I, I mean, I,

I can't tell you how many interviews I sat through trying so hard to just like keep myself together after like, I mean, it's been like a journey for me of just like, oh my God, can anybody tell?

Can anybody tell?

And everybody's like, no, we can't tell at all.