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Pop stars and real-life friends Maisie Peters and Holly Humberstone take a moment out of their hectic schedules — including album releases and world tours — to sit down in London and have an open and honest conversation about mental health and therapy. Moderated by Billboard’s Hannah Dailey and BetterHelp’s Sana Khwaja, the group discusses how the music industry pits women against each other, the difficult but beneficial act of scheduling a therapy session during a busy periods and the stress that comes with following up a successful album. Peters and Humberstone reminisce about their friendship over the years, how they constantly would get compared to each other and gush about their appreciation for each other’s work. They also dive deep into their mental health over the years, talking about how hate didn’t phase them when they were younger, how an online pile-on can really affect your headspace and how much easier it is to create art when you are mentally in a good place.
Holly Humberstone: I was quite intimidated by the concept of therapy.
Maisie Peters: Finding some better ways to cope with better ways to communicate, and I think that was really beneficial.
Holly Humberstone: Investing in yourself and investing in your mental health is always going to be a good thing.
Maisie Peters: I definitely should apologize to my therapist, because I’ve not replied to her in some months.
Hannah Dailey: Hi, everyone. This is Hannah Dailey with Billboard. Welcome to Like Minded, which is our series in partnership with BetterHelp, where we bring artists together for an honest, open conversation about mental health to shine a spotlight on what it’s like to be an artist in 2026 balancing mental health, and hopefully, in the process, learning from each other along the way. Today I’m joined by two people I could not be more excited to talk to. We have Holly Humberstone and Maisie Peters, and then also with me is Sana Khwaja. She is here on behalf of BetterHelp. She is an incredible, experienced therapist and mental-health professional, and we’re excited to all be here together, right.
Sana Khwaja: Excited. And really looking forward to hear some of your experiences.
Holly Humberstone: Me too.
Hannah Dailey: For people who don’t know, you two are actually friends in real life, correct?
Holly Humberstone: We see each other a lot on, like, we are on festival circuits. We followed each other around for a summer.
Maisie Peters: What a time.
Holly Humberstone: Oh yeah, that was a good time.
Hannah Dailey: Has a real cornerstone of your friendship been having these similar experiences as artists and supporting each other?
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