Brad Pitt Reveals He Once Felt “Suicidal” Over “Family Stuff”

Brad Pitt has revealed that he felt suicidal during “one little period” when he was looking for relief from pain related to “family stuff” that he was dealing with at the time. The 62-year-old actor opened up about the experience during a new interview with Esquire following a discussion about loss and grief, the latter of which Pitt described as “the most leveling of all emotions.” Though Pitt described himself as an eternal optimist who “won the lottery,” even he went through a period when he thought about ending it all. “I was never suicidal in any way. It just was not my makeup,” he explained. “In fact, if I have any afflictions, it’s probably being a congenital optimist. Which has helped many times, and it’s also gotten me — I’ve walked foolishly head-on into a Mack truck because of my optimism. Or, as my forever-funny friend David Fincher will say, Yeah, you see the glass as half full, but it’s half full of urine.” Pitt continued, “I’ve never been suicidal except for one little period. 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...