Remember when actor, Giancarlo Esposito, starred as “Julian ‘Dean Big Brother Almighty’ Eaves”– the leader of Mission College’s Gamma Phi Gamma Fraternity in “School Daze”? Back then he was fairly new to making a name for himself in Hollywood, and on his way to legendary status. However, fast forward to decades later and Giancarlo says his life took a painful turn for the worse. So much so, that the brotha actually plotted having a hit put out on his own life.

In a recent interview with SiriusXM’s “Jim & Sam”, when Giancarlo was promoting his new AMC drama series, “Parrish,” he explained how he was severely broke shortly before landing his popular role on the hit series, “Breaking Bad.” It was during that low point in his life, in 2008, when Giancarlo was nearly bankrupt and desperately trying to figure out how to provide for his four children. After seeing no way out, he contemplated a murder plot on his own life:

Giancarlo Esposito- “My way out in my brain was: ‘Hey, do you get life insurance if someone commits suicide? Do they get the bread?’ My wife had no idea why I was asking this stuff. I started scheming. If I got somebody to knock me off, death by misadventure, [my kids] would get the insurance. I had four kids. I wanted them to have a life. It was a hard moment in time. I literally thought of self-annihilation so they could survive. That’s how low I was.”

Luckily, he landed “Breaking Bad” just in time:

G.E.- “That was the first inkling that there was a way out, but I wouldn’t be here to be available to my kids. Then I started to think that’s not viable because the pain I would cause them would be lifelong, and there’d be lifelong trauma that would just extend the generational trauma I’m trying to move away from. The light at the end of the tunnel was ‘Breaking Bad.’”

Much respect to Giancarlo for sharing his truths with the world. Thankfully, he was able to see that there was in fact light at the end of the tunnel before it was too late.

Check out Giancarlo’s full interview below…