Malika Andrews: Lessons in Healing
The Squeeze
Taylor Lautner
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Emmy-winning ESPN sports reporter Malika Andrews opens up about her deeply personal journey with mental health - one that led her to spend over three years away from her family in search of healing. She shares how anxiety, depression, and disordered eating shaped her early years, the first warning signs that something wasn’t right, and what ultimately led her to therapy. Malika reflects on her time at a wilderness camp and an all-girls boarding school, the impact of missing out on her teen years, and whether being sent away helped or made healing harder. She also discusses how horseback riding became a powerful tool in her recovery, offering her a sense of peace and connection when she needed it most. Malika dives into the self-care practices that keep her grounded and why she sees mental health as an ongoing journey rather than a “before and after” story. Finally, she reveals one moment in her life she wishes she could go back to and what she would say to herself.
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| 0:00.0 | NBA today is hosted by an Emmy winner. |
| 0:05.0 | ESPN hosts Malika Andrews. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Malika Andrews. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Malika Andrews. |
| 0:09.0 | Because you're the first woman ever to host the NBA draft. |
| 0:13.0 | You won an Emmy and we're the first woman to host the NBA draft. |
| 0:18.0 | Did you ever think your career? |
| 0:20.0 | Because for a long time, I really didn't want to talk about it. |
| 0:25.2 | Everything seems to be going right, and yet there is a piece of you that feels so incredibly |
| 0:33.1 | off, and it's a little bit scary. What do you think it was that it felt like the right moment to start |
| 0:40.1 | like speaking about it? I didn't feel like I was offering up a holistic view of myself. The question |
| 0:46.6 | I get the most is how could you not be upset with your parents for sending you to a place like that? |
| 0:50.9 | There are no showers out there. You have a Naljean bottle over your head. When I tell you how badly I wanted to be normal, I didn't want to be a petri dish that people |
| 0:58.8 | were like examining. And so I didn't talk about it. My parents hired two people to escort me |
| 1:05.7 | because they were told that for my safety, that would be the best thing to do. |
| 1:15.2 | I'm really thankful for people like Paris Hilton who have had larger conversations about what regulations need to happen at these sorts of places. |
| 1:18.0 | No person is made up of the worst thing they've ever been or done. |
| 1:39.7 | Music done. Welcome to the squeeze. |
| 1:42.0 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:43.6 | I'm so excited to be here. |
| 1:44.9 | We're equally, if not more, excited. |
| 1:47.7 | It's not possible, but I'm looking forward to squeezing into that space between excitement with my excitement. |
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