Drew Afualo’s Dryly Honest Mental Health Check-In After TikTok Hiatus
Nothing screams “self-care” like ghosting your entire following for a fortnight and then announcing you’re fine—but here we are. After vanishing from TikTok last month, Drew Afualo resurfaced with a video confession about her mental health that reads like therapy notes set to viral audio. In true Afualo fashion, she balanced caveats about anxiety spikes with a side of self-deprecation so sharp it could double as a scalp-scraper. If reveling in your own neuroses were an Olympic sport, she’d be on the podium wearing rose-tinted shades.
She kicked off her update by admitting she’d hit capacity on “doom-scroll fatigue,” blaming the algorithm for her existential dread. Celebrity gossip outlets from People Magazine to Insider confirm she booked extra therapy sessions and traded late-night TikTok binges for hot showers and wellness podcasts. Juggling community expectations and personal boundaries apparently isn’t as glamorous as it looks when you’re serenading trolls with T-post clap-backs. Who knew constant digital engagement could eventually turn you into a trophy for burnout?
Afualo didn’t sugarcoat the struggle. She acknowledged that stepping back felt like “ghosting your own job,” since content creation is now practically a civic duty. The update included raw footage of her in sweats—no filter, no makeup, definitely no choreographed transitions—just a woman reminding fans that public figures are, in fact, people. She even joked that the scariest thing she faced wasn’t an internet meltdown but a quiet evening without a trending sound. Sharp as ever, she quipped that her phone battery got more rest than she did.
Equally telling was her shout-out to fans who sent DMs asking if she was “okay.” According to reports, over 200 direct messages ranged from supportive to downright absurd (“Did you delete your account or the simulation ended?”). Afualo’s deadpan read-out of the stranger-than-fiction inbox made it clear that internet kindness and cruelty often share the same Wi-Fi line. By the end of her video, she urged viewers to treat mental health like brunch—something you plan, indulge in moderately, and brag about on Stories.
Of course, this being 2024, not everyone stayed silent. A handful of critics accused her of dramatizing basic self-care for clout, which she dismissed with a one-lined roast about clout being less valuable than a decent night’s sleep. She wrapped the update by promising “slow, steady content” and reminding herself that her mental health deserves more respect than a trending hashtag. In the grand theater of social media survival, this might be Act One of her comeback.
Well, there you have it: Drew’s self-care saga continues. Tune in next time for more candid confessions, snarky retorts, and perhaps an update on whether journaling really is a life hack—or just another to-do list item waiting to be procrastinated on.
Sources: Celebrity Storm and People Magazine, Insider, BuzzFeed
Attribution: Creative Commons Licensed
