Keanu Reeves writes about his despair in new book

Keanu Reeves has revealed that he wrote about his despair in his self help book 'Ode To Happiness' after his friend Janey found his 'self-pity' hilarious.

The 46-year-old actor had lost his girlfriend Jennifer Syme in a car accident in 2001, two years after giving birth to the couple's stillborn daughter Ava.

"I was in my kitchen hanging out with my friend Janey, and the radio was on - and this station was playing, like, an orgy of depressing, self-pitying, nostalgic music. You know, 'I'm just so lonely and I've been left and my heart is broke.' It was so voluptuously horrible," Contactmusic quoted him as saying.

"And I just started to write on this piece of paper, because I had this image of, you know, the moment when you take a bath, you light that candle, and you're really just kind of depressed. And it was making Janey laugh so hard, I just l kept going, piling on the self-pity," he added.

Fans who were worried about the actor's state of mind had even set up a global Cheer Up Keanu Day for June 15.