Will.i.am has said music saved him from a ''dark place'' when he was "on the lower part of the roller-coaster".
The 44-year-old Black Eyed Peas star has admitted music was the one thing that stopped him from ''panicking'' and brought him out of that ''tough time''.
Speaking to the Daily Star newspaper, he said: ''For me, when I was really going through the thick of it, that was my medicine. That was a tough time for me.
"I was really in a dark place. I would panic. I don't even like talking about it because I will panic again. It was deep.''
The Voice UK coach recently penned new track Be Nice which tackles issues surrounding mental health struggles and he said working on the song helped him overcome his own battle.
"Music helped me. I was on a dip, on the lower part of the roller-coaster. And the lyric was: 'I just want to be happy, I don't want to throw nasty. I'm just trying to change my vibration around so I can feel fantastic. I'm looking at myself in the mirror, I'm telling myself to cheer up.'
''It made me realise I don't want negativity. I just want positivity.''
Last year, will.i.am opened up about his long battle with tinnitus and revealed doctors told him that the chronic condition, which causes a constant ringing sound in the ears, will eventually lead to irreversible hearing loss.
"I’m 43. When I went to the doctor and got an ear test, they said, 'Your ears are that of someone a lot older.'
"In 2007, 2013 and this year, I got all my frequency tests and the curve … it’s proper loss," he told The Sunday Times magazine.
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