United Kingdom, April 1 -- Kelsea Ballerini felt like she could not celebrate her work until now due to previous mental health struggles.

The 31-year-old country singer has been in therapy since she was 12 years old, and it has helped her cope with an eating disorder when she was a teenager, PTSD after seeing a classmate be shot dead in a school shooting aged 14 and, most recently, it guided Kelsea through her public divorce from Morgan Evans in 2022 after five years of marriage.

Now all of that is in the past and she has learnt more about herself, the star hopes she can now properly give her music the recognition it deserves.

She told PEOPLE magazine: "I'm very aware of my flaws. I have a relationship with them, and I do the work to k...