“Just imagine for yourself a man in underwear in his room crying…”

November 3, 2014 (Los Angeles, CA) - ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT’s correspondent Nischelle Turner exclusively sat down with Emmy Award-winning comedian and Let’s Make A Deal host Wayne Brady in which he opened up about his struggle with depression and hitting rock bottom.  Brady describes his inner battle while suffering with depression, explaining, “Having a bad day is one thing, having a bad week is another, having a bad life…You don't want to move in the complete darkness. You're like, ‘I am just going to sit right here and I want to wallow in this. As much as it hurts, I am going to sit right here because this is what I deserve.  This is what I deserve so I am going to sit here because I am that horrible of a person.’ It starts this cycle where you tell yourself these lies…that become truth to you. So, you stick to your own truth you've set up. If I am this bad, why should I be of this matter? I feel at that point, you want to stop the pain.”

While discussing the tragic passing of Academy Award-winning comedian Robin Williams, who Brady knew personally and who also suffered with depression, Brady states, “[Robin] was someone that brought such love and light to a few generations of people. When he was on stage [in] full Robin mode, and I know this from being blessed enough to work with him, [a person] could not touch that man. He made everyone feel great. But, at the same time knowing that he had this…what I make up in my mind, this low sense of self-worth, of belonging, loneliness, of pain that all the money in the world can't cure, all the accolades and awards, and all the love from people all over the world…all that love could not stop that man from saying, ‘I am in so much pain.’”

Brady admits that he hit rock bottom last June on his 42nd birthday revealing, “I was by myself, in my bedroom and I had a complete breakdown…Just imagine for yourself a man in underwear in his room crying…that birthday was the beginning of, ‘Okay, I have got to make a change.’”

Brady, who is currently on the road to recovery, tells Turner that he and ex-wife, Mandie Taketa, who co-parent raising their daughter Maile, are still friends and have become neighbors saying, “We said we want to give Maile the closest experience to living in the same house. We have always lived in different homes. We just live super close now…The fact of the matter is I like her mom…she was with me when no one else in the world was with me, except my mom. There was loyalty, there was trust, she is my baby mama.”

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