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Harrison Ford at 2026 Annual Actor Awards Gilbert Flores/Variety/Getty Images Harrison Ford is opening up about his past struggles with clinical depression. In an interview for The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, the esteemed actor was candid about the mental health struggles he faced while attending Ripon College in Wisconsin in the early 1960s. At the time, Ford said his social isolation led him to exhibit symptoms of depression.
“I had a single room, and I had classes to go to, but I rarely ventured out. I would get up out of my single bed, go to a phone, order a pizza, go back and lie down in bed until the pizza came. I would eat the pizza, throw the wrappers in the corner, go back to sleep,” Ford said. “On the rare occasion I did go to the classroom, I would often touch the door on the outside of the building, and turn around and walk back,” he continued. “I was more than depressed. I think I was ill. I was socially ill, psychologically not well,” the actor added.
