Farewell, Mike Ross.
Patrick J. Adams is revealing why he give up “Suits” after seven seasons.
“I wasn’t taking good care of my mental health and I was drinking too much come the end of seventh season,” the actor, 43, stated on Tuesday’s episode of the “Dinner’s On Me” podcast hosted by Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
“I was in a zone of living a pretty unexamined life. Was pretty miserable [and] I would say, pretty depressed,” Adams added.
Adams performed faculty dropout turned lawyer Mike Ross on “Suits.” He left the USA Community collection after Season 7 in 2018, alongside Meghan Markle (who performed Rachel Zane) and Gina Torres (who performed Jessica Pearson).
“I didn’t have the tools to deal with that depression beyond just spending money and drinking too much, you know, and not really knowing how to talk about it or in therapy sort of, but not really doing it,” Adams defined on the podcast. “You know what I mean? Like, there are all these things that I knew I needed to probably be doing and I wasn’t doing.”
“I would numb myself [to] deal with my insecurity and my fears,” Adams, who’s now sober, went on. “And they just weren’t working. And they were taking a toll on my relationship, for sure, but also just making me a very not present father. That for me was a breaking point when I was like, ‘I think I should stop drinking probably, because I don’t wanna be that dad.’”
Adams has two daughters, Aurora, 6, and Elliot, 3, along with his spouse of eight years, “Pretty Little Liars” star Troian Bellisario.
He stated on the podcast that “the best thing” he’s ever achieved was quit ingesting.
“It just needed to happen in order for all these other things to happen,” he shared.
“There was really no way I was gonna take my mental health seriously, take my physical health seriously, work on my marriage, work on my friendships, you know, deal with my fears and my anxiety,” the actor continued. “I just couldn’t have done any of it if alcohol was still in the picture.”
To give attention to his sobriety, Adams walked away from “Suits” and didn’t star within the remaining two seasons of the present — a choice that he stated he by no means regretted.
“The only reason to stay was… money,” Adams defined. “I didn’t know what else to offer. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and think about the money [Gabriel Macht] made those last two years, but I never regretted the decision for a second. I knew it was the right thing for my marriage, which I was not married at the time, but we were getting married. We got married in 2016.”
“And we had been away from each other for seven years,” he famous about his relationship with Bellisario, 39. “We’ve been together the whole time, ‘Suits’ had been on, and it was l time. We had been long distance for long enough. It was time for us to start our lives.”
“Suits” aired from 2011 to 2019. The present had a surge in viewership through Netflix final 12 months, which sparked the making of the upcoming spinoff “Suits: L.A.” premiering in February on NBC.
Adams additionally capitalized on the present’s newfound success by beginning a “Suits” rewatch podcast with co-star Sarah Rafferty in September.
Since leaving “Suits,” Adams has stayed shut with the remainder of the solid. He and Bellisario even attended the 2018 royal wedding ceremony between Markle, 43, and Prince Harry.
