Joe Pantolian is opening on his battle with mental health and life that kept him underway, his dogs.
The sopranos and Thugs Star, 73, revealed in a recent interview that almost a decade fighting against non -diagnosed clinical depression, resorting to self -medication and destructive habits in an attempt to face.
“Alcohol, what was available, women, you know, risky behavior, act first and then ask questions in second place,” the actor told Page six Thursday.
Pantoliano, who performed the volatile Ralph Cifaretto at the HBO Emmy winner The sopranosHe admitted that it was a “disaster for a long time” and attributed some of her problems to grow with a mother who also suffered mental health challenges.
He added that his relations with his wife, actress Nancy Sheppard, and her children also became severely tense in the process. “My wife and children were ready to throw me,” he admitted.
“The only people who were happy to see me were not people. They were my dogs,” the actor recalled.
The last of us Star, which currently stars in the off-broadway program Ginger twinsHe accredited his puppies even more for saving his life.
“It was the only spark that was left in me. It was like Tinkerbell and the light was dying,” he explained.
Pantoliano finally received a diagnosis of clinical depression in 2007. Two years later, he did not meet joking, me too! A non -profit organization aimed at erasing stigma around mental illness and encouraging others to seek help.
