Melissa Rein Lively Blames Outburst Over Face Masks in Target in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Mental Health Issues - Newser

Now Lively, the founder and CEO of a PR firm, is calling what she did during the July 4 incident in Scottsdale "unbelievably inappropriate," "classless," and "completely out of character," and she says her mental health struggles are to blame, per USA Today.

Lively says cops questioned her and let her go after the Target incident, and she returned home, only to have her husband call police out of concern for her mental state.

MarketWatch notes health authorities have expressed concern about people's mental health during the pandemic, spurred by health fears and job losses