United Kingdom, Sept. 18 -- Reese Witherspoon credits a hypnotist for helping her to overcome anxiety.

The Morning Show actress admitted she has always been a "high anxiety person" and after meditation and medication didn't help to ease her stress and panic attacks but neither had the result she was looking for.

Speaking to Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers on their Las Culturistas podcast, she said: "I'm a high-anxiety person... It can be really highly performance-based. Like, you have to perform. You have to show up, which is a lot of my anxiety. I used to have panic attacks, bad panic attacks, like crying.

"I tried meditation [but] it's hard for me to listen because I also have, like, some ADD stuff, so I can't listen to stuff for very lon...