Lewis Capaldi Opens Up About Mental Health Struggles, Second Album Jitters in ‘How I’m Feeling Now’ Documentary
variety.comMike Wass From serving drinks to passengers on a transatlantic flight to posing in his tighty-whities for a billboard, Lewis Capaldi’s reputation as music’s joker is hard-won.
While the Scot’s wit and willingness to do just about anything for a laugh are on full display in his Netflix documentary, “How I’m Feeling Now,” Capaldi drops the mask long enough to share his Tourette’s diagnosis and struggle with imposter syndrome.
A decision that weighed heavily. “I don’t know if you’re aware,” he deadpans, “but people are cunts.” Be that as it may, Capaldi forged ahead with the documentary. “I didn’t think I had a story that needed to be told,” he says, but director Joe Pearlman and his colleagues at Pulse Films saw it differently.
The “Someone You Loved” hitmaker ultimately went along for the ride because he imagined the film as something of a victory lap. “I thought it was going to be triumphant,” he laughs. “But then COVID happened and they’re filming me sniffing my underpants.” With the world suddenly grinding to a halt, Capaldi began to crumble under the pressure of conjuring a sophomore album as successful as “Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent,” his mega-selling debut — and cameras were there to capture it.
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