Patrick J. Adams recently explained why he got out. Suit At the end of its seventh season.
Jesse Tyler discusses the latest episode of Ferguson Dinner is on me. On the Nov. 26 podcast, Adams talked about his personal struggles that led to his decision to leave the legal show.
Explaining the reason behind his departure from the hit show, the actor revealed, “I wasn’t taking good care of my mental health, and I was drinking heavily at the end of the seventh season.”
“I was in an area that was living a pretty unexamined life. It was very sad… I would say, quite depressed,” he said. Old school Actor
Adams continued, “I didn’t have the tools to deal with this depression other than just spending money and drinking too much, you know, and not knowing how to talk about it or get treatment. , but not actually doing so.”
gave Plan B “Like, there’s all these things that I knew I probably needed to do and I wasn’t doing,” the actor mentioned.
Adams, who played Mike Ross opposite Gabriel Macht as Harvey Specter in the first seven seasons of the legal drama, pointed out, “I was still trying to live my life at 25 and find my Behavior was how I would numb myself [to] Dealing with my insecurities and my fears.”
“And they weren’t just working. And they were definitely hurting my relationship, making me a very absent father,” the 43-year-old remarked.
“That was a tipping point for me when I was like, ‘I think I should probably stop drinking, because I don’t want to be that dad,'” Adams told the host.
“I think the best thing I ever did for myself was stop drinking. All these other things just needed to happen,” the actor added.
Meanwhile, Adams shares three children with his wife Troian Bellisario.