Molly O’Connell. Charles Sykes/Bravo
Southern Charm star Molly O’Connell is getting candid on how ketamine infusions “completely changed” her life.
“I was in a deep depression. I struggle with depression and anxiety,” O’Connell, 37, shared on the “LadyGang” podcast on Tuesday, March 4. “I have PTSD and I got in a real rut and I couldn’t get out of bed. I wasn’t showering for long periods of time. I wouldn’t leave my house, I would just order DoorDash. I wouldn’t do anything, wouldn’t let anybody come over. And I wasn’t in a place where I could even do therapy. I needed to get better.”
O’Connell, who began appearing on season 10 of Southern Charm, explained that she started the ketamine infusions because Top Model’s Lisa Dato posted about how it “changed her life.”
“I messaged her; she told me about it. So had she not posted that publicly, I wouldn’t have known to do that,” she said. “I did a ketamine infusion and during the ketamine infusion is when I was playing ‘80s rock ballads … I was like, ‘Why did I quit music?’ … ‘Why would I let my anxiety stop me from something that I loved so much? And that I’ve done since I was 3, 4 years old.’ It was just ridiculous.”
Michelle Watt/Bravo Southern Charm newcomer Molly O’Connell will always remember her late brother, who died at the age of 14. “His name was Patrick and he was severely intellectually disabled,” O’Connell, 37, said on the Friday, February 21, episode of the “Reality Life with Kate Casey” podcast. “He was quadriplegic [and] he could really only […]
The reality star noted that after the infusions she was able to “get out of that rut” and start different types of therapy including Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and exposure therapy.
O’Connell began starring on season 10 of Southern Charm in December 2024. Since her start on the show, O’Connell has been open about her challenges as a model with weight fluctuation.
“I gained weight and most of the stuff I do, you need to be a certain size. I do a lot of e-commerce and that’s just how it is 1741145150,” O’Connell shared on the “LadyGang” podcast on Tuesday. “I’ve lost those jobs and weight is a part of that. It affects a lot of parts of my life, and I’ve got a lot of shame around it because of just society and the modeling industry and the toxicity of all that.”
Before appearing on Southern Charm, O’Connell also starred on the reality show America’s Next Top Model in 2011, where she came in second place.
Celebrities like Matthew Perry, Chrissy Teigen and others have been open about using ketamine infusion therapy to help treat mental health conditions. According to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), ketamine is a “dissociative anesthetic that has some hallucinogenic effects” and “can induce a state of sedation, immobility, relief from pain, and amnesia.” It […]
When asked which show was harder to film, O’Connell admitted that it was Top Model.
“It was 24/7 filming. They had motion sensor cameras in the corner of our bedrooms,” she revealed on an episode of “The Viall Files” podcast in January. “You couldn’t escape anyone. They could just come in.”
