Jason Sudeikis says Ted Lasso has saved him from "some form of self-harm" over the years.
The 50-year-old star, who has created and starred in four seasons of Apple TV's hit soccer comedy, revealed he has felt something he hadn't since his "confusing teenage years".
During Talk Easy With Sam Fragoso, Jason was asked what Ted Lasso has saved him from, and replied: "Some form of self-harm. Flat out."
Of the emotions he started feeling again for the first time since his teens, he added: "That’s probably the rawest, most, maybe embarrassing, but I don’t think it’s embarrassing…
"It does bubble up shame in me to think like, ‘How dare you? How dare you have those kinds of thoughts,’ you know?”
As a teenager, he thought about becoming a drummer or dancer as an outlet for his emotions.
Jason added: "“So how did [Ted Lasso] save me? To a certain degree, it helped [and] it carried me as sometimes the work has done in the past.”
The actor was also asked if he wanted to keep the show going for a fifth and sixth season, after the season four finale aired earlier in October.
Jason noted he "would like to", but added: "Yeah, I just don't know."
He insisted he wasn't "intentionally" being coy, although when it comes to whether or not Apple would be open to more Ted lasso, he "would assume so".
He explained that "it takes a village" to make the series - which was co-created by Scrubs boss Bill Lawrence - adding: "We haven’t started a writers’ room or anything like that.”
The podcast host mentioned that Jason didn't know what the fourth season was going to be before he created it, and he had an empty cup in the creative sense.
Asked if a similar situation could spark more, Jason quipped: "Um, we're going to need a bigger cup."
Earlier this year, he admitted it has been good for him to spend so much time playing someone with such a positive outlook on life.
Discussing how he'd respond to fans who told him how much the series meant to them by saying it had "saved [him] too", he told The Hollywood Reporter: “It is infectious to play a character who sees the best in people and isn’t mad at the world for all its foibles and bullies and shadows.
“It’s not like I’m Daniel Day-Lewis, but it was good to live in that — to have that coursing through your brain and your body all day. It still is.”
Jason was initially unsure he wanted to come back, even though he was earning $1 million per episode, because he felt it had ended in the right way.
He said: "That wasn’t a negotiation tactic. The story was told.
"Ted went home to be with his son. I wasn’t going to have Ted uproot their life to justify the money truck. It made no sense to me.”
But ultimately, the award-winning star is thankful he found a way back.
He said: “I know I needed this. I needed it as much as other people do.”