Brad Pitt was depressed in the 90s, almost gave up smoking marijuana

Brad Pitt was really depressed in the 90s. Admittedly it was a tough time for anyone who wasn't that into TMNT, Liam Gallagher or super sour sweets, but even amongst those who didn't know their April O'Neil's from their Krangs, Brad Pitt was considered to be in a pretty bad way. You might say he was having A VERY BRAD TIME™.

He was depressed in the morning, depressed in the evening and depressed at supper time. Eventually though, he realised shit was all fucked up and there was only one way out: Visit really poor people, stare at them and then give up smoking bong weed. Luckily The Hollywood Reporter was there to catch his frank and heartfelt admission. By the way, it works even better if you read it in Brad's Twelve Monkeys' voice.

"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," Pitt recalled.

"I got to, 'What's the point? I know better than this'. 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'."

"I saw poverty to an extreme I had never witnessed before [on a trip to Casablanca], 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. I just quit. I stopped grass then - I mean, pretty much - and decided to get off the couch."

Good on you, Bradley. Unfortunately though, it seems fellow actor Armie Hammer hasn't quite managed to break his addiction to getting on a marijuana high. Last November he was caught with three medicinal pot cookies and a drug brownie in Texas. Lucky the police caught him when they did, an action that hopefully served as a sharp wakeup call to the the toothpaste-themed Social Network star. After all, how long would it have been otherwise before he was smoking maybe one or two joints a month. We dread to think.