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Neal McDonough says Luke Perry took his family in during a dark time in his career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
The Yellowstone<\/em> actor was drinking heavily after Hollywood allegedly turned its back on him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n McDonough recalls Perry’s kindness before he was able to get back on his feet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Neal McDonough<\/a> said that despite being blackballed by Hollywood<\/a>, he still had solid friends in the industry who had his back.<\/p>\n McDonough was labeled a “religious nut bag” by Hollywood for refusing to kiss costars on screen<\/a>, he said in an interview with Fox News Digital<\/em><\/a> published on Tuesday. He struggled to book a job and ended up drinking heavily to cope, losing his family’s home and belongings in the aftermath.<\/p>\n “What time is the bar open? That was generally my thought process back then,” McDonough told the outlet.<\/p>\n “I was, you know, fired from a show because I wouldn’t kiss a woman,” McDonough said. “No one would hire me because they thought I was this religious nut bag, which is that I love my wife [Ruv\u00e9 McDonough] so much. And no one can understand it, no one could understand it.”<\/p>\n While in the midst of a dark time, Neal found kindness in his friend and late actor Luke Perry<\/a>, who allowed the McDonoughs to live in his Los Angeles home after they lost theirs. Perry died<\/a> at the age of 52 in 2019 from a massive ischemic stroke.<\/p>\n “Luke saw me one night at a premiere and he saw I was a mess,” Neal recalled. “He’s like, ‘What’s going on with you? I hear things aren’t going so great.’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah.’ And I opened up to him and he was like, ‘Why don’t you stay at my house? I don’t live in there anymore. It’s right by your house in Hancock Park. Stay there for as long as you want.’ I was like, ‘You mean it?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, here’s the keys.'”<\/p>\n