Having therapy seven hours a week gave Chris Rock a greater understanding of himself.
After revealing this fall that he is consulting with two therapists to deal with a non-verbal learning disorder – as well as painful childhood bullying for being the only black student in an all-white school – the comedian is now opening up about the benefits he sees .
“You have to tell the truth,” Rock, 55, said to Gayle King, 66, on this weekend’s “CBS Sunday Morning” (via People). “You have to tell – you have to go into therapy prepared to tell the worst part of yourself every week, you know?”
The “Top Five” star also learned that I could be very hard on myself. “
“Like very, very hard on myself, and I need to relax. And I need to listen, I need to take a chance, ”he told King.
Before his diagnosis of NVLD – which makes it difficult for Rock to pick up non-verbal signals – the comedian assumed that his fame was the main barrier that prevented him from really relating to others.
“And I always considered it to be famous,” he said in September. “Whenever someone answered me in the negative, I thought, ‘Whatever, they are responding to something that has to do with who they think I am.’ Now, I’m realizing it was me. A lot of that was me. “