P!nk is inexplicably making headlines this week for repeating something last week that she said 14 months ago – that therapy is the only reason she is still married to Carey Hart.
In an Instagram Live with life coach Vanessa Inn, the 40-year-old pop star said: “It’s the only reason we’re still together.
This echoes what she said during an April 26, 2019 interview with Today, which was also widely reported. “Carey and I have been in couples counseling almost our entire 17 years that we’ve been together. It’s the only reason we’re still together.”
In another 2019 interview, P!nk said she started going to therapy at age 22, shortly after the release of her debut album. “What I love about therapy is that they’ll tell you what your blind spots are,” she told the Associated Press. “Although that’s uncomfortable and painful, it gives you something to work with.”
In last week's Instagram Live, the “What About Us” star credited Inn with “translating” for her and Hart. "Partners after a long time, we just speak — I can’t say it’s a man and woman thing, I think it’s a partner thing, a spouse thing — that you just speak two different languages," P!nk explained.
“We just wouldn’t [be together] because we are not taught as kids how to have relationships, how to get along with people. I mean, what’s happening in our country right now is a perfect example of that. We don’t know how to love each other, we don’t know how to get along, we don’t know how to communicate.”
P!nk recalled one therapy session where Inn asked them to place their hands on each other’s hearts while keeping eye contact.
“This man that I had been saying won’t show up for me, his feet were planted in that earth, his hand was on my heart and his eyes were looking into my soul and guess what I did? I started giggling and looked away, she said. “And in that moment I realized that I was a little bit full of s**t. I was the one here that was just talking and there have been many of those times.”
P!nk and Hart started dating in 2001, had a brief separation in 2003, and got engaged in 2005. They tied the knot in Costa Rica in January 2006 but she announced in February 2008 that they had separated. Two years later, P!nk confirmed they had reconciled. They are parents to Willow, 9, and Jameson, 3.