Mind Reading: Comedy Helped Brittany Furlan Lee Cope As A Child. Now She’s Using It To Help Others

At 37, Brittany Furlan Lee has already lived many chapters in the public eye. The comic, actress and content creator once was the queen of Vine—a title that landed her on Time’s 2015 list of the 30 most influential people on the internet alongside Taylor Swift, Barack Obama and Kim Kardashian. She’s garnered praise as a standup, experienced cancel culture and attracted the spotlight as the wife of Motely Crue drummer Tommy Lee.

All along, she’s been living with mental health struggles dating back to her early childhood in Pennsylvania, where she first turned to comedy as a coping mechanism. It’s a craft she continues to hone not only to bring laughs but increasingly to help normalize the kinds of conversations she was unable to have…