The 44-year-old star recalled a time two years ago when he was working on Amazon Prime Video’s ‘Mammals’ show, which launched in November and had an emotional chat with his son Max, then 10 years old.
On ‘The Drew Barrymore Show’ he said: ‘I was filming on a Sunday and I came downstairs, it was regarding six in the morning and my son, who was ten at the time, was sitting on the stairs and he said to me, “Are you working today? and I said, “Yes”, and he said, “I was thinking, well, it’s Sunday”.
“And I said, ‘I know mate, but this program is just all over the place. We just have to do it because we only have a little bit of time before we have to go back to doing the show’ .
“And his face went down. I got in the car and called my wife Jules and said, ‘I realized that, best-case scenario, we still have six more summers where Max has want to be near us.
I can’t waste another one.” “So the choice was to say, ‘If I really want to do this other job, it can’t be at the expense of our children, our family, and that’s really all. what matters.”
The father-of-three – who also has eight-year-old Carey and five-year-old Charlotte with Jules – reiterated that his decision to step down later in 2023 is not “due to the fact that he doesn’t like it,” but he never considered the CBS talk show his “final destination.”
He added: “I will be in a terrible shape on this last show. I will cry all the tears in my body but I will know deep down that the best thing for me and the best thing for us as a family is is to put down roots in London, and that feels absolutely right in every sense of the word.”
