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Eva Longoria: 'I Didn't Know I Was Depressed'

THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO -- Episode 4438 -- Pictured: Actress Eva Longoria during an interview on April 4, 2013 -- (Photo by: Paul Drinkwater/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

In an episode of "Dr. Oz" airing Friday, actress Eva Longoria opened up about her post-split struggles following her 2010 divorce from Tony Parker.

"I didn't know I was depressed," she said. "I mean, I knew it was a sad moment in my life, but I wouldn't categorize myself as depressed. I'm not that, I'm an optimist about life. Life didn't work, moving on. I'm fine."

Longoria filed for divorce from Parker in November 2010. They finalized their split in January 2011.

The "Desperate Housewives" actress is not the first celebrity to admit to feeling depressed after a divorce. Click through the slideshow below for five other stars who struggled post-split.

Celebrities Who Admitted To Being Depressed After Divorce

Nicole Kidman(01 of05)

In an interview in the October 2012 issue of Australia's WHO magazine, Nicole Kidman opened up about life after her 2001 divorce from Tom Cruise, which she described as "the loneliest, loneliest existence." She added: "I married [Tom] really fast and really young, but I don't regret that because it got me Bella and Connor, and I did have a fantastic marriage for a long period. Then when it didn't work out, I had to really dig deep and find my way through depression, but I have no regrets about all of it. It was all a part of growing up." (credit:AP)

Ryan Phillippe(02 of05)

After seven years of marriage, Reese Witherspoon filed to divorce Ryan Phillippe in November 2006. After the split, Phillippe admitted that he struggled with depression. In a 2008 interview with W magazine, he described the period as "the darkest, saddest place I had ever been.""It was a struggle--there were a good four or five months of not being able to get out of bed. It was the worst time in my life," he said. "You get through it. It's a process that's not easy, but I get less and less sad about it every day." (credit:AP)

Emma Thompson (03 of05)

In 2010, Emma Thompson told BBC Radio that following her divorce from actor and "Thor" director Kenneth Branagh in 1995, she dealt with a "very rough" period. "I don't think I did stay sane," she told host Kirsty Young. "I should have sought professional help. Divorce. Ghastly, painful business." (credit:Getty Images)

Halle Berry (04 of05)

In a 2007 interview with Parade magazine, Halle Berry admitted to being so distraught after her 1996 split from baseball player David Justice that she contemplated suicide. "I was sitting in my car, and I knew the gas was coming when I had an image of my mother finding me," she told the magazine. But Berry reportedly claimed that Parade"sensationalized some old material" about her suicide attempt, noting that the information was actually pulled from earlier interviews with Larry King and Oprah. (Paradedenied the accusation.) (credit:Getty Images)

Uma Thurman(05 of05)

Amid rumors of Ethan Hawke's philandering, Uma Thurman filed for divorce from the "Training Day" actor in 2004 after six years of marriage. In a sit-down interview with Oprah in 2005, she called the break up "excruciating." A year later, she elaborated on the pain she felt in the wake of the split: "My professional life was soaring, but my private life was in ruins," Contact Music quoted Thurman as saying. "For many years, I lived in a kind of self-loathing where I never gave myself much credit for anything I accomplished." (credit:AP)

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