Charlie Hunnam almost lost a ''six-figure deposit'' on his dream house.

The 34-year-old actor admits he had ''a nervous breakdown'' after dropping out of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and it made him question everything in his life, including his plans to buy a huge ranch.

The 'Sons of Anarchy' star said: ''I absolutely just lost my mind last year. I had some big personal stuff going in my life, and I think it just threw me off balance and I decided I was gonna buy a ranch, I was gonna take 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and every other movie that I got offered all at the same time, and then I had something of a nervous breakdown and had to pull out of all of it.''

He added: ''So I didn't end up buying that ranch. Literally, I had an hour until my, like, six-figure deposit was no longer refundable. When I say I pulled out at the 11th hour, I really did. That sucks. That sucks for everyone involved.''

Charlie says it was ''very painful'' to let director Sam Taylor-Johnson down by backing out of her upcoming adaptation of the best-selling novel.

He told Entertainment Weekly: ''I really was just so sad for Sam the director, because I absolutely adore her, and I gave her my word and committed to going on this journey with her.

''It's been many years that I've been in this business. All of a sudden, I'm getting all of these wonderful people approaching me and asking me to work with them. It's very hard to say no when you love and respect people. I just kind of made a bit of a rookie mistake in that one in biting off more than I could chew.''