12 Hollywood Stars Who Battled Depression
She suffered from depression and anxiety in her teens, but worked through her troubles without taking medication, according to a 2007 article in People magazine. Speaking of her depressed self, she said, "I am sorry she was hurting for so long. It's all so negatively narcissistic to be so consumed with self."
Keep reading to meet 12 other stars who have battled depression.
Gwyneth Paltrow
"I expected to have another period of euphoria following his birth, much the way I had when my daughter was born two years earlier," she wrote on her blog, Goop.com. "Instead I was confronted with one of the darkest and most painfully debilitating chapters of my life."
But she told Vogue in 2008 that she was never diagnosed with postpartum depression, according to MSNBC. "I didn't know I had it until it was over."
Owen Wilson
Friends say he had battled addiction and his own inner demons, the magazine reported, and in a 2005 interview, he himself admitted having an "Irish strain of depression."
Ashley Judd
In the midst of her battle with dark moods, she was sleeping a lot, cleaning compulsively, and isolating herself from friends, she told Glamour magazine in 2006. Then she spent 47 days in a Texas treatment facility. "No one had ever validated my pain before," she said. "It was so profound."
Marie Osmond
And Osmond herself had thought about ending it all not long after the 1999 birth of another son, Matthew. "I'd had the baby blues before, but this was different," the paper reported. "My body was racked with hysterical crying and I began to understand for the first time, why a person would want to take their own life."
Zach Braff
His downbeat personality was on display in his 2004 hit movie "Garden State," in which he plays a troubled young man who returns home for his mother's funeral. "To have millions of people go, 'I watched your movie and related' was the ultimate affirmation that I'm not a freak."
Jim Carrey
Speaking on 60 Minutes in 2004, the flamboyant funnyman said, " I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever. I had to get off at a certain point because I realized that, you know, everything's just OK."
Alicia Keys
"I was feeling so sad all the time, and I couldn't shake it," she said. "I started burying my feelings, and it got to a point where I couldn't even tell my family or my friends, 'I'm twisted,' or 'I'm exhausted,' or 'I'm so angry.' ... I became a master of putting up the wall so that I was unreadable."
Brooke Shields
"I really didn't want to live anymore," she told WebMD. She said she was thinking of jumping out the window until she realized she was only on the fourth floor. "You'll get broken to bits and then you will be even worse."
Actor Tom Cruise slammed Shields for taking antidepressants, but she let him have it right back. In 2005, she wrote in the New York Times, "I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression."
Craig Ferguson
"I was definitely confused and desperately twisted and turned upside down by whatever the hell what was going on inside my head," he said in one of his monologues, adding that he had been "self-medicating" with alcohol.
Andrew Koenig
The actor - son of Walter Koenig, who played Chekov in the original "Star Trek" series - had been battling clinical depression and had gone missing after turning down several roles and clearing out his California apartment.
If there was something in particular that triggered the suicide, Koenig's father didn't know about it. According to E!, the elder Koenig wrote in his website, "I think it's something that has been a part of his makeup for a long time."
Rosie O'Donnell
Now a decade older, she still battles depression and seasonal affective disorder - with the help of meds, yoga, and inversion therapy.
Yes, she hangs upside down for 15 to 30 minutes a day.