xQc reveals why extreme panic attacks keep him from traveling to IRL events
xQc opened up about the extreme anxiety he has while flying on planes in a conversation with DJ Akademiks, saying it’s put a major damper on his IRL streams abroad.
In March 2025, streaming star Felix ‘xQc‘ Lengyel participated in the annualSidemen Charity Football Match, which was held in London for a liveaudience of over 90,000 fans— but it wasn’t easy for him to travel across the pond.
In fact, Lengyel admitted that he suffers from crippling anxiety around flying on planes, as revealed in an April 2 live stream with prominent podcast host DJ Akademiks.
At first, xQc said that he’s been trying to stream in Japan for a number of years — but after Akademiks admitted that he’d be too anxious to be on a plane that long, Lengyel said that he, too, can barely handle flying on a plane.
xQc says flying overseas triggers panic attacks & hospital fears
“My plane anxiety is so bad. I wake up with panic attacks like four or five times,” he began. “I spark up from a little sleep and into full panic, where I have the thought that I want to jump through a window.
“Literally. I feel like I’m gonna f**king die, like four or five times per flight. And I still do it.
“…it makes you want to call the lady and say, ‘Yo, can we land and go to the hospital?’ Whenever I fly, I hate flying overseas because I keep thinking, ‘If something happens, we can’t just land right there and go to the hospital.'”
While the longest flight xQc has been on was a nine-hour trip from North America to London, he says he’d be willing to brave the 16-hour flight to Japan for a future IRL stream by spending a whopping $15K on first-class seats for a private, enclosed cubicle.
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Lengyel and Akademiks are far from the only influencers who suffer from flight anxiety, also known asaerophobia. 100 Thieves owner Matthew ‘Nadeshot‘ Haag also has a fear of flying, as does prominent YouTuberMoistCritikal, who called the idea of being on a plane“terrifying.”
