Mylett and Howes Reveal Age 27-28 As Turning Point When Success Triggered Crippling Self-Doubt

What was said

"For me, it was when other people started to criticize me a little bit. That's exactly when it happened. And one day that did switch and like maybe 32 or 33, I realized, wait, these are people's projections on to me. Like I don't have that's not who I am. My mistakes I'm not my mistakes and I'm not who they say I am."

Both Mylett and LeAnn Rimes identify their late twenties as when public criticism triggered severe anxiety and stage fright despite years of confident performance. They describe beginning to view themselves through critics' eyes rather than their own self-knowledge, leading to years of questioning their identities before eventually recognizing these as external projections rather than truth.