Robert Pattinson has reportedly revealed that he battled with depression after rising to fame in Twilight.
The actor said that coping with his international stardom was a huge struggle in his early twenties in an interview with Premiere magazine.
He is quoted as saying: "I went through a big time of depression between 23 and 25. I couldn't go where I wanted to go, I was in the tabloids every day and I didn't have access to the roles I really wanted. I wanted more, on every level.
"I finally realised that you needed to earn this change I so desperately wanted. That one way or another, you had to suffer to be able to make it. I thought everything was going to be served on a plate, but that's not how it works."
The 26-year-old actor has since branched out of the Twilight franchise. He recently starred in the David Cronenberg thriller Cosmopolis, which he credited with helping him out of depression.
He said: "When David Cronenberg offered Cosmopolis to me, I [had] never read anything as interesting for years.
"I saw Kristen [Stewart] leave to film Snow White and the Huntsman, Taylor [Lautner] was also doing his thing on the side, and I was just going in circles, asking myself if I was going to take a break and go back to music.
"Then one day David called and I went crazy."
