Yahoo Lifestyle Suits Star Patrick J. Adams Reveals He Quit the Show Because He Was ‘Drinking Too Much’ and ‘Miserable’
Patrick J. Adams is opening up about his decision to leave Suits.
The actor was going through a severe mental health crisis when he exited the show after seven seasons, he reveals on Tuesday’s episode of the Dinner’s On Me podcast with Jesse Tyler Ferguson. “I wasn’t taking good care of my mental health, and I was drinking too much [by] the end of Season 7,” he admits. He was “pretty miserable” and “pretty depressed,” he adds: “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.”
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He says his alcohol use was “taking a toll on my relationship, for sure, but also just making me a very not present father.” (Adams is married to Pretty Little Liars alum Troian Bellisario, with whom he shares two daughters.) When it came time to return for Season 8 of Suits, he recalls, “the only reason to stay was… money. I didn’t know what else to offer.” So he stepped away from the series, and “I never regretted the decision for a second. It was the right thing for my marriage… It was time.”
Adams co-starred as unlicensed lawyer Mike Ross on the USA legal drama, which debuted in 2011. Following Season 7, Adams left the cast, along with co-stars Meghan Markle (who played Mike’s love interest Rachel) and Gina Torres, with Katherine Heigl joining the cast in Season 8. Suits ran for two more seasons without Adams, but he did return for the series’ final two episodes, which aired in 2019.
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