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Nov. 26, 2024 – “I was still trying to live my life as a 25-year-old and doing my patterns of like how I would numb myself, take care of myself and deal with my insecurity and my fears,” he explained. “They just weren’t working. They were taking a toll on my relationship, for sure, but also just making me a very not present father.”
The Suits alum reflected on his decision to stop drinking alcohol, which he explained came to a head while filming the beloved legal drama.
“I wasn’t taking good care of my mental health, and I was drinking too much come the end of the seventh season,” Patrick told Jesse Tyler Ferguson on the Nov. 26 episode of Dinner’s on Me. “I was in a zone of living a pretty unexamined life. It was pretty miserable. I would say, pretty depressed.”
“I didn’t have the tools to deal with that depression beyond just spending money and drinking too much,” he recalled. “There are all these things I knew I needed to probably be doing and wasn’t doing them.”
