LeAnn Rimes: 'Traumatic parts' of childhood fame 'outshadow and outweigh the success'

LeAnn Rimes can vouch for hindsight being 20/20.

"I can look back and recognize, I think, how much I have survived," the now-38-year-old artist told USA Today. "The traumatic parts of it kind of outshadow and outweigh the success and all the accomplishments, so it's nice to kind of look back and have a have a balanced view of both sides of things."

"I always joke about this, but it's not really funny," she continued. "There was never anyone for me to really call on and say, 'Hey, how did you get through this?' Because most all of us that start at that age are dead or still really shaken by the whole experience. I feel like probably one of my greatest accomplishments has been surviving childhood stardom and thriving past it and finding my own healing and my own healing journey because not everyone is so fortunate."

Rimes became the youngest individual Grammy winner at the 39th annual awards show in February 1997 at 14 years old. She took home best new artist and best female country vocal performance for "Blue," the title track of her debut album.

The chart-topper has been the opposite of a one-hit wonder, topping the Billboard Hot 100 ("One Way Ticket") and releasing eight top-10 albums, including two No. 1s, from 1996 to 2007.

And Rimes isn't done.

God's Work, her 15th studio album, will arrive before the year ends.

In the meantime, you can listen to her Wholly Human podcast.