Overview
- Danson recounted on his podcast that he had "f***ed up" his life and "didn't even realize" Cheers had ended because he "barely knew" himself.
- He said on the July 22 podcast episode that he wanted to "stop being a liar" and drove to Long Beach to see a mentor who gave him "a whole different kind of therapy spirituality kind of thing."
- Danson confirmed that his decision to leave Cheers grew from a desire to pursue other work and to force personal change, and that producers decided the series should not continue without him.
- Reporting restated that the personal turmoil around the 1993 finale coincided with his divorce from Cassandra Coates and press accounts linking that breakup to an extramarital relationship with Whoopi Goldberg.
- The reflections form part of a longer public reassessment by Danson that traces how he rebuilt his career after Cheers with roles on shows such as Becker, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Good Place, and the current Netflix series A Man on the Inside.