One thing which was not included in the last story about Brad Pitt and I feel is more than worthy of mention is of his recent comments about his depression which would help put the content of the previous story into a clearer context.
In a candid interview with Hollywood Reporter the movie star spoke of his difficulty in coping with the illness.
The Moroccan trip which helped him “get off the couch” as he says himself, and of which he says he “sought out” the U2 singer after a visit there were responsible for much more than was initially revealed about his life. As yet, we are unsure if Bono suggested he undertake the trip to Morocco or if it he went there purely on his own advice.
While Pitt’s movie star status got elevated in the 1990′s, with films such as ‘A River Runs Through It’,'Legends of the Fall and Seven, catapulting him to global fame, his personal life declined.
Pitt had this to say himself of those years and times:
“I got really sick of myself at the end of the 1990s: I was hiding out from the celebrity thing; I was smoking way too much dope; I was sitting on the couch and just turning into a doughnut; and I really got irritated with myself,” he says. “I got to: ‘What’s the point? I know better than this.’ ” Pitt wrestled with dark thoughts: “I used to deal with depression, but I don’t now, not this decade — maybe last decade. But that’s also figuring out who you are. I see it as a great education, as one of the seasons or a semester: ‘This semester I was majoring in depression.’ I was doing the same thing every night and numbing myself to sleep — the same routine: Couldn’t wait to get home and hide out. But that feeling of unease was growing and one night I just said, ‘This is a waste.’
Then the trip to Casablanca in Morocco, in the mid-to-late 1990′s happened and this is what the attribute to bringing about the change in his life he so desperately needed;
“Where I saw poverty to an extreme I had never witnessed before, and we talked about inequality and health care, and I saw just what I felt was so unnecessary, that people should have to survive in these circumstances — and the children were inflicted with a lot of deformities, and things that could have been avoided had become their sentence. It stuck with me.” Almost overnight, he decided something had to give. “I just quit. I stopped grass then — I mean, pretty much — and decided to get off the couch.”
You can read the full interview on Hollywood Reporter
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