Country singer Luke Combs bravely opened up about his struggles with obsessive compulsive disorder and how it affects his daily life.
“Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) features a pattern of unwanted thoughts and fears that lead you to do repetitive behaviors (compulsions),” according to Mayo Clinic. “These obsessions and compulsions interfere with daily activities and cause significant distress.”
During the Monday, March 2, episode of Jay Shetty’s “On Purpose with Jay Shetty” podcast, the “Beautiful Crazy” artist admitted, “I think I have a tremendous ability to suffer.”
Luke Combs Has Lived With OCD Since Childhood
Combs opened up about growing up with the disorder, telling Jay Shetty, “I’m not afraid to speak about it.”
“That was very defining for me,” Combs said. “I had a great childhood. My parents were great. Great home, hardworking. My parents are still married. They’re still around. So, I worry sometimes when I talk about like how tough it was being younger for me. And like I worry when my parents see these things that they think that that has some reflection of like them as parents. It doesn’t at all.”
He went on to say that his parents “went above and beyond” for him as a child, adding that he has a new respect for his mom and dad after becoming a parent himself. Combs shares sons Tex Lawrence, Beau Lee, and Chet Wiley with wife Nicole Combs.
Despite growing up with loving parents, Combs pointed to his head and admitted, “I’ve been to the bottom in here.”
“I’m not there,” he continued. “I still have a proclivity to be able to go there if certain things line up and, you know, I were to have an OCD moment or something. But those moments are few and far between and they’re a lot shorter-lived than they used to be. And I’m not afraid of those moments anymore.”
Luke Combs Previously Revealed His Diagnosis
During an August 2025 appearance on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast, Combs shared an example of how his form of OCD, “Pure O”, manipulates his thoughts.
“There’s a lot of themes that are very recurrent for people that have this. Religion is one,” he told Shepard, per Us Weekly. “It essentially preys on the antithesis of who you are at your core, but it focuses on questions that are unanswerable. Which is like, ‘Do I really love God? Do I really believe in God?’ And then you spend over 90 percent of your day thinking about that. And that can happen for months on end.”
He added, “There’s no good parts of it other than when you don’t have it. I would say definitely the course of my life has been dictated by that at certain times.”
