Chris Rock reveals Adam Sandler and Rick Rubin make him feel insecure as he details the challenges he has been grappling in therapy

Comedy legend Chris Rock has spent several years in therapy battling everyday insecurities that keep popping up.

The comedian may be a household name by now, but in a new interview with The New York Times, Rock revealed he finds himself getting self-conscious when he compares himself to his successful friends.  

'I've been doing a lot of therapy the last few years, post-COVID, and a lot of it is about not feeling insecure,' Rock, 61, told the publication.

'A lot of it is about "you’re enough," but I don't ever really feel insecure about my status, per se.'

Rock's, who recently revealed the one condition that would bring him back to host the Oscars after Will Smith's slap, feelings of self-doubt creep in when he gets together with people like Adam Sandler and Rick Rubin.

Sandler's films have grossed over $3 billion worldwide and he's maintained multi-million dollar deals with Netflix.

Rubin is known to be one of the most successful and influential music producers in history, having helped launch the careers of LL Cool J, Public Enemy, the Beastie Boys and Run-DMC.

'Occasionally, I'll meet people that are obviously working harder than me and that'll make me feel insecure - Adam Sandler, Rick Rubin. You’re like, "How many things are you doing right now?"' Rock admitted.

'And some people are better with their kids than me,' he said, adding: 'I think I’m a good dad.'

The SNL alum has daughters Lola, 24, and Zahra, 22, with ex-wife Malaak Compton-Rock, 57.

The couple were married from November 1996 until they separated in 2014. Their divorce was finalized in August 2016.

Rock admitted it took him 12 years to get behind the camera again after 2014’s Top Five, which critics liked but was not a blockbuster hit.

'Life, COVID, I got divorced, which meant I had to make real money,' he said of his directorial break. 'Maybe I had some other scripts that the market didn't respond to. It's not like I was sitting around. But COVID was a time to be like, "OK, what am I doing with my life?" And other [expletive] I don’t feel like talking about. I had a lot of stuff going on the last 12 years.'

His new film, Misty Green, which he wrote, directed and starred in, touches upon those issues of insecurity.

The story follows a once-famous actress, played by Rosalind Eleazar, whose career has faded and who faces eviction and has just seven days to find a new place to live and start over.

'When I'm directing, I say, "It's my movie, it's your part." And it was hers, man,' he raved about Eleazar. 'For the months we were shooting, there was only Misty. She was Misty in the audition. She was Misty through the whole filming process. She never asked me one question that didn't have to do with the character.'

Rock, who was famously slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars in 2022 for making a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head, recently told Variety the incident is 'not that important.'

The standup comic insisted he has moved on from the controversy.

"It’s a crazy world. We walk by homeless people. There’s all sorts of s*** going on right now. Me having a bad day is not the biggest — it’s not that important."

Rock was also philosophical about his own success in life.

'Showbiz has been very, very good to me,' he told the outlet. 'In a world where we have trillionaires, I don't have that much money. But my dad got sick when I was poor, and my mother got sick when I had some money. Dad's dead. My mom's doing great. You know what I mean? It's literally that simple. So I'm good. I'm really good.'