Friends star Matt LeBlanc says there was a time he desperately wanted to stay far away from the spotlight and came close to a breakdown.
The 48-year-old actor said it was a “dark time” and he “barely left the house,” reported E! online.
“I was burnt out. I wanted to not have a schedule, not be somewhere. I was in a position to do that. My agent was
bummed. Most actors call their agents and say, ‘What’s going on?’ I’d call mine and say, ‘Please lose my number for a few years.’ It was a very dark time. I almost had a nervous breakdown,” LeBlanc said.
The actor escape to his California cattle ranch following the end of his sitcom spin-off, ‘Joey,’ in 2006, cutting his hair into a Mohawk to avoid the limelight. Amid personal and professional difficulties, the only things that kept the actor going was his daughter, Marina.
“The second I laid eyes on her (when she was born), I was in love, and I had never felt that way before. I couldn’t believe it. I knew from that moment there was nothing that would ever stop me from loving her – even if she crashed my Ferrari,” he said.