Nick Jonas describes the public mishap that led him to seek therapy

Nick Jonas said this week that a failed guitar solo in 2016 Academy of Country Music Awards took him to see a therapist.

The youngest member of the trio of pop brothers. the jonas brothers discussed stage anxiety in the “Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard” Podcast on Monday, recalling what he called the “tragic guitar solo debacle.”

Jonas was backing Kelsea Ballerini on her song “Peter Pan” and had rehearsed, he said, for what seemed like “a million times.” He said that he “felt very confident about it.”

“I started, okay, and as I was walking up to her, I just went completely blank and played a wrong note and passed out, basically, and realized it was wrong and I couldn’t stop,” the “Jealous.” said the singer.

Jonas took a joke on social media and tried to shrug off the mishap as a “brain fart”. But the effects were long lasting.

“In retrospect, I can laugh at how big I thought it was. But she traveled more than she would have wanted, and it took me to go to therapy,” she said.

“To this day and [after] hours after unpacking it i really cant figure out exactly what happened but i was rushed into a car and then onto a plane.

“And I looked at my manager and said, ‘I think that was wrong.’ She was in shock, sort of. And then it was like a really traumatic moment that shaped the pressure I put on myself to be perfect and always ‘on.’

Jonas recalled other mishaps, such as forgetting the lyrics when he performed on Broadway in “Annie Get Your Gun” as a child, but called the CMA blunder “the worst moment ever.”

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The Jonas Brothers, who got back together in 2019, are ready to tour extensively in August, September and October.