Overview
- In a nearly three-minute Instagram video posted Wednesday, Lil Nas X said he spent months in rehab, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, is seeing a therapist and psychiatrist, and is “doing much better.”
- A Los Angeles judge approved his entry into a two-year mental health diversion program in April that will dismiss the three battery charges and one resisting charge if he follows treatment and obeys the law for the full term.
- The legal case stems from an August 2025 incident in Studio City when he was found nearly naked, hospitalized for a suspected overdose, arrested and later charged with three counts of battery with injury on a police officer and one count of resisting an executive officer.
- His lawyer says he has followed a regular mental health regimen since leaving inpatient care, and Lil Nas X has teased new music as he balances ongoing outpatient treatment with plans to resume his career.
- Under diversion the focus shifts from prosecution to treatment so successful compliance leads to dismissal while failure to complete the program would leave the underlying felony exposure unresolved and keep legal risk active.