Aldon Smith is being remembered after newly-surfaced footage shows him speaking candidly about personal struggles before his sudden death .

The clip, recorded for the YouTube barbershop show Laced Up and uploaded on June 8, shows the former San Francisco 49ers star seated in the barber's chair in a reflective mood days before he was found unresponsive and later pronounced dead at 36.

"I definitely had better days," Smith said at the beginning of the video linked here , before the host told him it was a “safe space” for him to “elaborate.”

Smith responded, “I kind of don't because it's along the lines of something I think I've been dealing with my whole life and I'm just struggling with accepting how it's playing out right now. That sounds like a bunch of gibberish."

He later added, "To be honest, I'm grateful. I'm in a place of gratitude right now. It's been a tough week, but it's been rewarding and it's starting to pay off.…