‘Depressed’ Patrick J. Adams Quit ‘Suits’ Because He ‘Drank Too Much’ – Reveals His ‘Breaking Point’

Farewell, Mike Ross.

Patrick J. Adams reveals why he left ‘Suits’ after seven seasons.

“I wasn’t taking good care of my mental health and I was drinking too much at the end of season seven,” the 43-year-old actor said on Tuesday’s episode of the “Dinner’s On Me” podcast hosted by Jesse Tyler Ferguson .

“I was in a pretty unexamined zone of life. It was pretty miserable (and) I would say, pretty depressed,” Adams added.

Adams starred as college dropout-turned-lawyer Mike Ross in “Suits.” He left the USA Network series after season 7 in 2018, alongside Meghan Markle (who played Rachel Zane) and Gina Torres (who played Jessica Pearson).

“I didn’t have the tools to deal with this depression, other than just spending money and drinking too much, you know, and not really knowing how to talk about it or get therapy of sorts, but I didn’t don’t really do it,” Adams explained on the podcast. “You know what I mean? Like, there were all these things that I knew I probably should be doing that I wasn’t doing.

“I would numb myself to deal with my insecurity and my fears,” continued Adams, who is now sober. “And they just weren’t working.” And they damaged my relationship, of course, but also made me a very absent father. For me, that was a breaking point when I said to myself, “I think I should probably stop drinking, because I don’t want to be that father.” »

Adams has two daughters, Aurora, 6, and Elliot, 3, with his wife of eight years, “Pretty Little Liars” star Troian Bellisario.

He said on the podcast that “the best thing” he ever did was quit drinking.

“It just had to happen for all these other things to happen,” he said.

“I really had no chance to take my mental health seriously, to take my physical health seriously, to work on my marriage, to work on my friendships, you know, to deal with my fears and my anxiety,” continued the actor. “I just couldn’t have done all that if the alcohol was still around.”

To focus on his sobriety, Adams stepped away from “Suits” and did not star in the show’s final two seasons — a decision he said he never regretted.

“The only reason to stay was…money,” Adams said. “I didn’t know what else to suggest. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and think about the money (Gabriel Macht) made in the last two years, but I have never regretted that decision for a second. I knew it was the right thing for my marriage, because I wasn’t married at the time, but we were going to get married. We got married in 2016.”

“And we were separated from each other for seven years,” he noted of his relationship with Bellisario, 39. “We’ve been together the whole time, ‘Suits’ was out, and it was time. We had been traveling long distances for quite a long time. It was time for us to start our lives.

“Suits” aired from 2011 to 2019. The show saw a surge in viewership via Netflix last year, sparking the upcoming spinoff “Suits: LA,” which will premiere in February on NBC.

Adams also capitalized on the series’ newfound success by launching a “Suits” rewatch podcast with co-star Sarah Rafferty in September.

Since leaving “Suits,” Adams has remained close with the rest of the cast. He and Bellisario even attended the 2018 royal wedding between Markle, 43, and Prince Harry.