Watts puts 'suicide' rumour to bed
Australian actress Naomi Watts has always regretted telling a journalist she had considered suicide before she had her big break - as she insists the comment was taken too literally.
The 21 Grams star, 36, admits she was on the brink of dangerous depression during hard times as a struggling actress in Los Angeles, but was shocked when she realised the press had latched onto her comment.
She previously told a reporter, "I remember driving along Mulholland Drive, thinking, 'Maybe I'll just go over the cliff because I can't take it anymore.'"
However, Watts explains: "That wasn't literal. For the record, I am not a suicidal person.
"But I understand depression and I've lived it and I felt really badly when I read that and suddenly it's everywhere, 'Naomi Contemplating Suicide.'"
Watts leapt to fame in 2001 with David Lynch drama Mulholland Dr.
