“Blues Clues” host Steve Burns acquired candid about his battle with melancholy whereas filming the favored kids’s present.
“I didn’t understand it but, however I used to be the happiest depressed particular person in North America,” the previous youngsters’ present host informed Selection. “I used to be fighting extreme medical melancholy the entire time I used to be on that present. It was my job to be totally and utterly filled with pleasure and surprise always, and that grew to become unattainable.”
“I used to be all the time in a position to dig and discover one thing that felt genuine to me that was ok to be on the present, however after years and years of going to the nicely with out replenishing it, there was a value,” the 49-year-old continued.
Burns grew to become the host of the animated sequence in 1996, on the age of twenty-two, happening to earn a Daytime Emmy nomination in 2001. When he exited the present in 2002, he defined on the present that he was going off to school and that his youthful brother would take over.
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“My technique had been, ‘Hey, you bought a terrific factor going, so simply battle it!’ Seems, you don’t battle melancholy; you accumulate it,” Burns stated candidly. “After I left ‘Blue’s Clues,’ there was an extended interval of therapeutic. It wasn’t till the dying of my father that I actually began to take issues severely, and my life grew to become a lot extra manageable.”
“It made me take into consideration issues I hadn’t thought of, like legacy and the worth of the issues we’ve left behind,” he shared. “It pressured me to reevaluate and take far more severely my psychological well being. And New York Metropolis by no means was a lot good for my psychological well being.”
The present initially debuted on Sept. 8, 1996 and featured Steve, the character performed by Burns, navigating his animated home and fixing low-stakes mysteries together with his animated pet canine, Blue.
In 2021, to mark the present’s twenty fifth anniversary, Burns returned with a video message shared to the Nick Jr. Twitter account. The heartwarming message noticed him handle his absence from the sequence.
Final week, Nickelodeon introduced “Blue’s Clues” was returning to tv.
“You bear in mind how after we have been youthful we used to run round and hang around with Blue, and discover clues, and discuss to Mr. Salt, and freak out concerning the mail, and do all of the enjoyable stuff? After which at some point, I used to be like, ‘Oh hey, guess what? Huge information… I am leaving,'” Burns recalled on Twitter.
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“Can we simply speak about that?” he requested his grown-up followers within the type he used to deal with the digicam with on the present. “As a result of I notice that was type of abrupt. I simply type of acquired up and went to school. That was actually difficult by the best way, however nice, as a result of I acquired to make use of my thoughts and take a step at a time, and now I actually am doing most of the issues that I wished to do.”
He continued, “Take a look at all you’ve got achieved and all you’ve got completed in all that point. And it is simply… it is simply so wonderful, proper? I imply, we began out with clues, and now it is what? Pupil loans, and jobs, and households, and a few of that has been type of exhausting, you understand? I do know you understand.
“I suppose I simply wished to say that in any case these years I by no means forgot you. Ever. And I am tremendous glad we’re nonetheless buddies…”
Burns reprises his function within the film “Blue’s Huge Metropolis Journey,” which premieres on Paramount + on Friday.
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