Matthew Morrison recalls leaving Glee series before Cory Monteith’s demise

Matthew Morrison has recently revealed he planned to leave Glee series prior to Cory Monteith’s death in 2013.

Speaking on the latest episode of And That’s What You REALLY Missed podcast, Morrison said, “I was actually trying to get off the show.”

“In season 5, I asked to be off the show, because I was just like, I’m no longer being used in the way I wanted to,” remarked the 45-year-old.

Morrison, who played teacher Will Schuester for six seasons, continued, “And no disrespect to the show.”

“We are at a high, I was like, ‘Maybe if I get off the show, I could go do something else, go do a movie or whatever,’ and they agreed to let me off the show,” stated the What to Expect When You’re Expecting actor.

He recalled, “Cory passed and then they said they couldn’t do it.”

“Because you can’t have the two main guys on the show [leave]. So yeah, it was an interesting time,” mentioned Morrison.

The actor pointed out, “I understood. I was like, ‘Yeah, I get it.’”

“You know, trying to reconcile my own wants and selfish needs with the grief of losing an amazing friend, you know, there’s a lot of just mixed emotions. But I’m a professional, I showed up, I did my job. And there was a good pay increase, so that worked too,” he added.

During the podcast, Morrison opened up that his time on the show “was filled with super highs highs and devastating lows”.

“I was so stressed I broke into the craziest psoriasis,” he remembered.