Actor Ashton Kutcher once contemplated suicide when he was told that his twin brother had just a few hours to live.

Kutcher, known as Demi Moore's boyfriend, was just 13 when he visited his brother at an Iowa hospital and learned that, after Michael's heart stopped temporarily, he probably had only hours to live.

Ashton considered jumping from a hotel balcony so his healthy heart could go to his brother.

"I'm standing on the balcony, thinking about jumping off, and my dad comes out and says, 'What are you thinking about?' I tell him. He comes over and says, 'You can't do that'," the actor was quoted as saying by the website.

"And right then the doctors come rushing out, (saying), 'We have to prepare the OR. A woman died in Florida in a car accident, and there's a heart on the way."

The transplant surgery was a success and Michael currently lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Kutcher has made multiple donations to the University of Iowa Hospitals where the operation took place.