Kelsea Ballerini Apprehensive ‘What If I Suck?’ Forward of Performing Debut in Physician Odyssey

Kelsea Ballerini is embracing the unknown.

The nation singer, 31, made her first foray into the appearing world as a visitor star on Ryan Murphy‘s new medical drama, Physician Odyssey, and she or he mentioned that the choice to attempt one thing new is on theme with the present period of her life.

She described appearing as “one of many issues that I used to be like, ‘Run towards the issues that scare you!'” in a canopy story for Girls’s Well being, although she admitted she’d anxious, “What if I suck on TV?”

“Then you recognize what I do? I’ll go placed on my glitter and return onstage,” Ballerini mentioned. “That’s all the time going to be residence base.”

Ballerini’s guest-starring position within the Joshua Jackson-led medical drama was revealed within the present’s trailer, which dropped per week earlier than its premiere.

She’s one among many stars who make appearances within the collection, together with John Stamos, Cheyenne Jackson, Chord Overstreet and Gina Gershon.

On the L.A. premiere on Sept. 18, she advised PEOPLE she was “timid” forward of the position, because it marks her “first time ever making an attempt the appearing hat on.”

“I wasn’t reserved on the truth that it was my first time. So I requested a whole lot of questions and I really feel like I realized a lot, and I actually hope that I did the character and the present proud.”

She additionally had the built-in assist of her boyfriend, Outer Banks star Chase Stokes, if she had questions.

“I’ve all the time known as appearing his world, and so at any time when I used to be asking him questions on this chance, I used to be like, ‘What about this in your world?'” she mentioned. “And he was like, ‘Hey, it is only a world. I am part of it and now you are part of it. It isn’t my world.'”

She continued, “By the tip of the dialog, I used to be like, ‘Okay, so you may run the scene with me?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.'”

Stokes can also be mega supportive of Ballerini on this planet she’s extra usually on the heart of: music.

“It’s unbelievable. It’s a grasp class in songwriting,” Stokes, 32, advised PEOPLE of his girlfriend’s forthcoming album, Patterns. “To observe her on the again porch writing and see what it’s now, it’s the most fascinating factor.”

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Physician Odyssey airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on ABC