Brad Pitt is opening up about an extremely dark period of his life.
The Academy Award winner, 62 — who has publicly navigated a contentious divorce from ex Angelina Jolie after their 2016 split — admitted in a Monday, August 10, Esquire interview that he had suicidal thoughts.
"I've never been suicidal except for one little period," the F1 actor said. "And in that one little period, I just thought — I just couldn't — just didn't see a way out."
"The pain was so oppressive that — I wasn't going to act on this, but I could feel — I could feel the cold steel of the bullet in my head, and it felt like relief," the father of six, who appears to have a strained relationship with his children, admitted.
"And I thought, Oh, okay, now I understand — I understand suicide, in the sense that it's just relief," Pitt said. "It's just looking for relief from the pain. But I also think we have incredible survival instincts. And for me, that immediately kicked in."
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The Academy Award winner, 62 — who has publicly navigated a contentious divorce from ex Angelina Jolie after their 2016 split — admitted in a Monday, August 10, Esquire interview that he had suicidal thoughts.
"I've never been suicidal except for one little period," the F1 actor said. "And in that one little period, I just thought — I just couldn't — just didn't see a way out."
"The pain was so oppressive that — I wasn't going to act on this, but I could feel — I could feel the cold steel of the bullet in my head, and it felt like relief," the father of six, who appears to have a strained relationship with his children, admitted.
"And I thought, Oh, okay, now I understand — I understand suicide, in the sense that it's just relief," Pitt said. "It's just looking for relief from the pain. But I also think we have incredible survival instincts. And for me, that immediately kicked in."
#feel
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