Overview
- Garlin told Ted Danson on the 'Where Everybody Knows Your Name' podcast Wednesday that he had a nervous breakdown and said, “I was going to commit suicide.”
- He said friends and family helped him enter a rehabilitation facility in Cincinnati where he learned dialectical behavior therapy, stopped feeling suicidal, and began medication.
- Garlin said clinicians diagnosed him with bipolar disorder during the rehab stay and that ongoing therapy, DBT practice, medication, boxing and writing helped him recover and feel creatively fulfilled.
- The disclosures rest on his account of being written off The Goldbergs after a 2021 HR probe into complaints about his on-set behavior, which he says preceded the crisis.
- At least one former co-star has publicly disputed Garlin’s framing that mental illness explains his past conduct, leaving unresolved tensions between explanations of illness and workplace accountability.