Andy Samberg Reveals Why He Left SNL: ‘I Was Falling Apart’
Andy Samberg’s exit from Saturday Night Live in 2012 was a disappointment to many fans, but what they hadn’t known until now is that the star was suffering “physically and emotionally,” he revealed this week.
Samberg revealed that his time on the show led to him feeling like he “was falling apart in my life,” when he sat down with Kevin Hart for his interview series Hart to Heart. Samberg was in the cast from 2005 to 2012, during which, he said he started to break down from the grueling schedule.
“We were writing stuff for the live show Tuesday night all night, the table read Wednesday, then being told now come up with a digital short—so write all Thursday [and] Thursday night. Don’t sleep, get up, shoot Friday, edit all night Friday night and into Saturday,” he explained. “It’s basically like four days a week you’re not sleeping, for seven years.”