Mostly starting from the "After Laughter" era onwards, Williams has been vocal about her experiences with depression, which caused her to briefly leave Paramore in mid-2015. In an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music in February 2020, she revealed she had suicidal thoughts, but that she ultimately did not act on them. In a February 2021 interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, she discussed how she’s been impacted by generational trauma and revealed she’s been in therapy since the conclusion of Paramore’s "After Laughter" tour in 2018.