The 52-year-old actress revealed that upon turning 40, she was in "so much pain" despite living her dream in Hollywood and used to look for places where she could stage her death as an accident so she could hide the truth from her family, reports aceshowbiz.com.
She told People: "When I turned 40, I was in so much pain. I couldn't figure a way out besides death. So I made a plan. But, while I was really living the dream, I hit a huge wall - a massive amount of depression.”
“I think that I looked at having outside sources to supplement for the voids that I was feeling inside. I started looking for places, cliffs where I could have an accident, because I didn't want my kids to think that their mother had committed suicide."
In the end, the ‘Nutty Professor’ star ended up finding help in the form of South American psychoactive brew ayahuasca, which is usually brewed into a tea to drink and is thought to help shift hallucinations, reports aceshowbiz.com.
Source : ENT