{"id":2517675,"date":"2026-07-26T08:05:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2517675"},"modified":"2026-07-26T08:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:05:04","slug":"ted-danson-wanted-to-stop-being-a-liar-at-the-end-of-cheers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ted-danson-wanted-to-stop-being-a-liar-at-the-end-of-cheers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Danson wanted to &#8216;stop being a liar&#8217; at the end of &#8216;Cheers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft wp-block-nypost-editor-partner-article-links\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/29\/hollywood\/ted-danson-podcast-where-everybody-knows-your-name-makes-embarrassing-spelling-mistake-when-naming-a-list-superstar\/\">Ted Danson\u00a0is getting<\/a> real about the state of his personal life toward the end of his run on \u201cCheers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During a recent episode of his podcast, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tWV2Z8EZYc4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Where Everybody Knows Your Name<\/a>,\u201d the 78-year-old actor gave listeners an idea about what his life was like when \u201cCheers\u201d came to an end in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople say, \u2018What was it like? What did you do when she was over?\u2019 I said, \u2018I had f\u2013ked up my life so much that I didn\u2019t even realize \u2018Cheers\u2019 was over,&#8217;\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the conversation, Danson admitted he \u201cbarely knew myself\u201d and took a \u201cpostgrad grow-up class fast\u201d the last year he was on the hit show.<\/p>\n<p>He described driving to Long Beach to see his mentor, whom he called \u201camazing,\u201d saying he gave him \u201ca whole different kind of therapy spirituality kind of thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to stop being a liar,\u201d he said. \u201cI wanted to be emotionally mature. I wanted to change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cCurb Your Enthusiasm\u201d star previously spoke about the end of the series in an August 2025 episode of his podcast, reflecting on the state of his personal life at the time.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Ted Danson appears on his \u201cWhere Everybody Knows Your Name\u201d podcast on July 22, 2026. <span class=\"credit\">Where Everybody Knows Your Name\/X<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Ted Danson and the cast of \u201cCheers\u201d pose for a photo with Wade Boggs on March 2, 1988. <span class=\"credit\">ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When asked by his guest, Charlie Day, if he was afraid of being typecast when the show ended, Danson said \u201cthe transition was easy\u00a0because I blew my personal life up so badly,\u201d and he didn\u2019t realize the show had ended for a few months \u201cbecause I was just dealing with myself and my personal stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Danson starred on the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/02\/celebrity-news\/ted-danson-shocked-women-viewed-him-as-a-sex-symbol-during-early-cheers-days\/\">beloved sitcom\u00a0as Sam Malone<\/a> from 1982 to 1993, becoming one of the few cast members to appear in all 273 episodes of the show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCheers\u201d came to an end after 11 seasons, when Danson expressed his desire to pursue other acting opportunities, with executives deciding the show should not go on without him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was changing for the better and working really hard at that, so I thought, \u2018Might as well jump completely off the cliff,&#8217;\u201d he said. \u201cAnd [there was] a little bit of \u2026 \u2018If I don\u2019t leave now, I may not know if I could do anything else, and I want to see if I can do any other stuff.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Ted Danson, Nicholas Colasanto, Shelley Long, Rhea Perlman on the set of \u201cCheers.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen attend the premiere of \u201cThe Dink\u201d in Los Angeles, on July 20, 2026. <span class=\"credit\">FilmMagic<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After his time on \u201cCheers,\u201d Danson starred in \u201cBecker,\u201d \u201cCurb Your Enthusiasm\u201d and \u201cCSI: Crime Scene Investigation,\u201d before introducing himself to a new audience in \u201cThe Good Place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He is currently starring in the\u00a0hit Netflix show, \u201cMan on the Inside,\u201d playing a retired professor who finds himself working as an undercover spy in a nursing home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s something inherently funny about a 76-year-old man who is a [retired] college professor, his life shut down, his daughter\u2019s worried. So, she says, \u2018Get a project,\u2019 and he happens to whimsically find a project where he becomes an undercover spy in a retirement home,\u201d Danson told\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/ted-danson-loves-how-a-man-on-the-inside-explores-aging-exclusive-8752566\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">People<\/a>\u00a0in November 2024.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Danson\u00a0is getting real about the state of his personal life toward the end of his run on \u201cCheers.\u201d During a recent episode of his podcast, \u201cWhere Everybody Knows Your Name,\u201d the 78-year-old actor gave listeners an idea about what his life was like when \u201cCheers\u201d came to an end in 1993. \u201cPeople say, \u2018What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2517676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,24003,348479],"class_list":["post-2517675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-celebrity-news","tag-ted-danson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Ted-Danson-wanted-to-stop-being-a-liar-at-the.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2517675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2517677,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517675\/revisions\/2517677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2517676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2517675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2517675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2517675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}