Watch: Eddie Murphy Lets Cameras Inside His Home for First Time Ever in New Documentary TrailerEddie Murphy knows he has layers. The Shrek star recently got candid about his journey with what he's described as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)-which can feature a pattern of unwanted thoughts and fears leading to repetitive behaviors, or compulsions-and how he can trace his obsessive behaviors back to his childhood. "I didn't know what it was," Eddie explained in his new Netflix documentary Being Eddie. "I would go and check the stove in the kitchen and make sure all the gas was off in the kitchen. And I'd lay down for about, you know, five minutes, and I would get back up and go back in the kitchen and look at the stove again and check all the gas, and then I'd go back in the bed and lay there for about five, 10 minutes and then get back up and go look at it." The pattern, the comedian recalled, would last for about an hour and was repeated every night. "I'd just say, 'That's just some weird s--t that I do,'" he added. "My mother, nobody knew this was going on."readEddie Murphy Lets Cameras Inside His Home for First Time Ever in New Documentary TrailerIt wasn't until he was watching TV one day that Eddie realized there was something more to his actions. "One day I was watching the news and they did something on OCD," he explained, "and it was like, 'Oh, that's what I-I be doing s--t like that.' I was like, 'Oh, mental illness?'"Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty ImagesThe realization that his behavior could fall under the category of a mental illness, Eddie said, was enough to break him of the habit. "I made myself stop doing it," he said, "I was like, 'I'm not doing it no more. I thought I was weird. I ain't know I had some mental illness. F--k that. I ain't have no mental illness. Mental illness, my ass.' And I forced myself to stop doing it." But while the Trading Places star-who is dad to 10 children-said he was able to quit cold turkey in his childhood, he admitted the habit hasn't completely left him. "I check the gas every night, still," he said. "But every now and then, I'll check it twice, and say 'No, motherf--ker, you ain't starting that s--t again. Take your ass to bed.'" In the documentary, however, Eddie also speculated that his OCD-and accompanying attention to detail-may have helped him along his comedic journey. Jamie McCarthy/NBC"Sense of humor is ultimately an acute sense of proportion," he explained. "The funny person notices stuff first." As for accepting himself where he's at, Eddie has a simple answer. As he said elsewhere in the documentary, "I love myself. Always loved myself. That's the most important thing. Being Eddie, currently streaming, is an intimate look at the actor's journey from standup comic to Saturday Night Live cast member to movie star-all while sharing insight into his inner world, including allowing cameras into his home for the very first time. "Through the documentary, people get a better understanding of how I got here," he told Tudum in an interview published Nov. 12. "A young person might think I just walked out of heaven into Hollywood, but that's not quite how it happened. For the first time, they're getting a little peek at me." For more stars who have gotten candid about their mental health journeys like Eddie, read on. Franklin Sheard/Fad Media Group/ShutterstockGucci ManeThe rapper (real name Radric Davis) revealed in his October 2025 book Episodes: The Diary of a Recovering Mad Man that he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, which prompted a mental health episode in 2020. "After that, I was like, 'Man, I got to really just hold myself accountable and take care of my health,'" he said on an episode of The Breakfast Club. "I don't never want to have an episode again. I'm gonna see a therapist, [even] if I have to take medicine." In addition to his hope that his vulnerability would help others in need, Gucci Mane said that his kids Ice Davis and Iceland Ka'oir Davis with wife Keyshia Ka'Oir inspired him to seek help amid his episode. "My wife was pregnant with my little boy," he continued. "I don't want to raise a family and then my mental health [is] gone. What if I have an episode I can't come back from? So, I just started doing the work and started seeking help."Sansho Scott/BFA.com/ShutterstockPenn BadgleyThe Gossip Girl alum detailed his experience as a child actor with what he described as "body dysmorphia." "I know that I hated my body," Penn told The Guardian in April 2025, "and simply wanted a different one." In response to the weight he gained following his parents' divorce, he added, "There was just a period where, coming out of depression and isolation, I was jumping wilfully into, but also being thrust into, this world where the more conventionally beautiful I seemed, the more successful I might be, the more value I might have." Despite the mental struggles, though, Penn credited his ability to persist to his spirituality. "That