Farm livin’ is the life for him.
Tom Green has shared why he left Hollywood behind for rural Canada after 20 years in the city.
The “Tom Green Show” star, 53, spoke about his 2021 move in an interview with The New York Times published Saturday as he promotes his new documentary, aptly titled, “This Is the Tom Green Documentary,” which dropped Friday on Amazon Prime Video.
“I’m not really a Hollywood guy,” explained the Canadian native, who currently lives with chickens, a mule and a donkey on a 150-acre farm in a remote area of Ontario. “I started to feel like I wasn’t being true to my authentic self.”
Glenn Humplik, Green’s sidekick on his ’90s MTV show, told the outlet that the relocation made sense to him, given how he has come to know the star over the years.
“Tom is actually really reserved usually and serious,” Humplik said. “He’s very analytical about every single comedy bit and thing that he does. It’s not just a primitive demonstration. He understands why something is funny or not. And it goes beyond just comedy — about life. He really reflects on things a lot. Maybe too much sometimes.”
Green’s move from the Hollywood Hills to a farm in Ontario, Canada, will be further documented in the upcoming Prime Video series “Tom Green Country,” which premieres Friday, Jan. 31.
“People are probably going to be surprised that I’m not, like, completely crazy,” he said of the series.
“There’s a sort of a wholesome heartwarming thing to this — that I have a close relationship with my family, that I love animals, that I enjoy doing a lot of things that a great many people in the world enjoy doing, like getting out into the woods.”
Four years after leaving Los Angeles, Green has no regrets.
“I’m very relieved that somehow I ended up making the choice to come back to Canada,” he told Yahoo Canada recently. “I thought about it for years and when COVID happened, lives were turned upside down, I had the time to make the move. I was not touring anymore, doing my stand-up, and I had a chance to make this choice.”
“It’s been a big process, uprooting my life of 20 years and selling my house, and moving here and getting a farm, and now I have all these incredible farm animals.”
Green rose to fame in the 1990s with his popular MTV prank show, “The Tom Green Show.” A stand-up comedian by trade, he went on to appear in movies such as “Road Trip” and “Freddy Got Fingered,” which he wrote and directed.
He was also a fixture in celebrity pop culture during the ’90s and early aughts, thanks in part to his brief marriage to Drew Barrymore (the pair tied the knot in July 2001 and divorced in October 2002).
Currently engaged, Green has another new project in the pipeline: a stand-up comedy special, “Tom Green: I Got A Mule!,” which premieres Tuesday, Jan. 28 on Prime Video.
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