Patrick J. Adams Quit ‘Suits’ Because ‘I Was Drinking Too Much’ and ‘Depressed’: ‘The Only Reason to Stay Was Money’ and ‘I Never Regretted’ Leaving

variety.com:

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Suits” star Patrick J. Adams appeared on the latest episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s “Dinner’s on Me” podcast and opened up about his exit from “Suits.” Adams was a series regular on the USA legal drama for seven seasons.

He played Michael James Ross opposite Gabriel Macht as Harvey Specter. Adams returned for the final two episodes of the series but was otherwise absent from its final two seasons. “I wasn’t taking good care of my mental health and I was drinking too much [at] the end of Season 7,” Adams revealed about his exit. “I was in a zone of living a pretty unexamined life.

Pretty miserable [and] I would say, pretty depressed. I didn’t have the tools to deal with that depression beyond just spending money and drinking too much, and not really knowing how to talk about it.” “I would numb myself [to] deal with my insecurity and my fears,” he continued. “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.’ The best thing I think I ever did for myself was stop drinking.