Per TVLine, Patrick J. Adams (Plan B, Old School) discusses what happened during the show Suits and how he coped with his character, Mike Ross, being written off the show. He mentions struggling with depression and allegedly struggling with alcohol. Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family, Ugly Betty) interviewed Adams on his podcast Dinner’s on Me.
“I wasn’t taking good care of my mental health and I was drinking too much [at] the end of season seven,” Adams informed Ferguson on the podcast. “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.”
He added, “I would numb myself [to] deal with my insecurity and my fears. 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. It just needed to happen in order for all these other things to happen.”
“The only reason to stay was … money. I didn’t know what else to offer. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and think about the money [Suits star Gabriel Macht] made those last two years, but I never regretted the decision for a second. It was the right thing for my marriage … it was time.” He concluded on Dinner’s on Me.
After his departure on the show, Adams is now hosting Sidebar: A Suits Rewatch, his podcast. The podcast is currently being recorded in the middle of Adam’s final season and with co-star Sarah Rafferty (My Life with the Walter Boys, The Devil Wears Prada) as stated by TVLine. Additionally, he will be appearing in an upcoming BBC and Netflix limited series Lockerbie and Yellowstone sequel series The Madison.
When Suits was renewed last year on Netflix, the show gained 57.7 billion total minutes. These numbers resulted in an upcoming spinoff series, Suits: L.A. Macht will reprise his role as Harvey Specter.