Life is not always a barrel of laughs for comedian Wayne Brady.

The comedy star and "Let's Make a Deal" host recently opened up about his battle with ongoing depression and revealed that his struggle led him to have a breakdown.

"People are like, 'Wayne Brady's always happy!'" said the 42-year-old comedian in an interview with Entertainment Tonight. "No I'm not. Because I'm human."

Brady discussed what it has been like living with clinical depression throughout his life, a condition which he was often afraid to disclose publically because of the stigma it holds in society.

"Having a bad day is one thing, having a bad week is another, having a bad life ... You don't want to move, you can't move in the darkness," said the television star. "You're like, 'I am just going to sit right here and 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.'"

In the interview, Brady confessed that he decided to get help after having a traumatic episode on his 42^nd birthday last June.

"I was there by myself, in my bedroom and I had a complete breakdown ... Just go ahead and imagine for yourself a brother in his underwear, in his room, you got snot ... and that birthday was the beginning of, 'OK, I've got to make a change!'" he revealed.

Brady also recalled working with comedy legend Robin Williams, who tragically ended his life this summer after privately battling with depression.

"When he was on stage [in] full-on Robin mode -- and I know this from being blessed enough to work with him -- you could not touch that man," said Brady. "He made all these people feel great. And at the same time, knowing that he had this sense of ... what I make up in my mind, this low sense of self-worth, of belonging, of 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 still not stop that man from saying, I am in so much pain."

As for Brady's road to recovery, the star is currently in therapy and credits his ex-wife Mandie Taketa, with whom he shares 11-year-old daughter Maile, for helping him take the necessary strides towards dealing with his condition.

"It took me a while to get my stuff together to go, 'You know what? If you're not happy, you have to do something about it,'" said Brady. "Just to admit that you are feeling this way is a huge step. To claim that, to say, 'Why do I feel dark? Why do I feel unhappy? Let me do something about this.'"