Why ‘You’ star Shalita Grant is ‘super grateful’ for her depression

“You” actress Shalita Grant revealed that suffering from depression led her to learn how to live her life as her authentic self.

“I’m going to say something that is going to be really different. But I’m actually super grateful for my depression,” Grant — who plays Sherry Conrad in the new season of the Netflix series — told Page Six recently.

She explained that she would go into “depressive episodes” because she wasn’t “living authentically and so that inauthenticity was causing just this real rift inside of me.”

But coming out the other side, Grant, 33, said the depression helped her learn there are “boundaries to me living right and they’re set from within.”

The actress told Page Six she’s been going to therapy for 12 years, but hasn’t had a depressive episode since her mid-20s, which is around the same time she came out.

“I always say I had a straight brain and a gay body,” she told us, adding that while growing up, TV and the media portrayed being a good woman as being good at sex. So “like the people pleaser” she was, Grant admitted she had “a lot of straight sex but I didn’t feel anything.”

Grant would talk to other women and research — and soon surmised that you weren’t supposed to enjoy sex.

“So you just like, go through life and you’re like, ‘OK, what it means to be straight is to be good at sex. It’s labor, right? All the jobs, h—jobs, b—jobs, like it’s labor, right? But you’re not supposed to feel good. That’s normal.'”

Then, at 24, she “fell over” a woman in a bar and her body instinctively “knew.”

“And when I found out I was gay, I told everybody because I was like, ‘Y’all don’t have to live like this. There is pleasure on the other side!'”

Grant is currently dating MMA fighter Jessica Aguilar and regularly posts snaps of the happy couple on social media.

Meanwhile, as the breakout star of the Penn Badgley series, Grant says she’s met quite a few people who mirror her on-screen persona of Sherry Conrad, a mean girl-turned-mommy blogger.

“Do you know what I do for a living?” she joked. “There’s this saying that’s usually applied in the social justice arena: When you’re used to getting s–t on, you know what the a–hole looks like.

“So for me, it’s great. I’m so happy to embody the a–holes that I’ve had the misfortune of encountering.”