Nick Jonas says 'traumatic' 2016 ACM Awards performance sent him to therapy

Nick Jonas is looking back at his “worst moment” on stage.

During an appearance on the Armchair Expert with Dex Shephard podcast, the 30-year-old singer recalled his performance at the 2016 ACM Awards, where he forgot his lines while performing a duet with Kelsea Ballerini.

"Then there was another time during a really tragic guitar solo debacle that happened on live TV," Jonas lamented. "In retrospect, I can kind of laugh about how big I thought it was. But it did travel more than I wish it would have, and it did cause me to go to therapy."

"Kelsea and I had a couple performances together, and this was one of them. I come out for my thing. I rehearsed it a million times. I'm feeling really confident about it — not even really thinking about it like it's a thing that's going to be problematic," he recalled.

The Love Again actor continued, "I started off, it was fine and as I walked towards her, I just went completely blank and I hit a wrong note and blacked out basically and clocked that it was wrong and I couldn't stop."

"Til this day and hours after unpacking it, I can't really figure out exactly what happened, but I was rushed to a car and rushed to a plane right after it," added the musician.

"I looked at my manager and said, 'I think that was bad.' I was, like, in shock kinda. It was a really traumatic moment that shaped the pressure I put on myself to be perfect and to always be on."