Neal McDonough appeared as everyone's favorite villain, Malcolm Beck, on Yellowstone. But there was a time when he questioned if he would ever act again.
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Speaking with Fox News Digital, the Yellowstone star says there was a time when Hollywood turned against him. They labeled him as a religious nut and almost ruined his career.
"What time is the bar open? That was generally my thought process back then," he explained. "It was, you know, fired from a show because I wouldn't kiss a woman. No one would hire me because they thought I was this religious nut bag, which is that I love my wife so much. And no one can understand it, no one could understand it."
'Yellowstone' Star Talks Difficult Time
The Yellowstone star refused to kiss a co-star because he felt that was being disrespectful to his wife. So he was canned and blackballed, saying he lost "the house, lost the cars, lost everything." But during this time, McDonough says that the lake Luke Perry threw him a lifeline and allowed McDonough to stay at his house.
"Justified was just coming out, but I still didn't think I was worth anything because I failed to my family. I failed, [my wife] Ruve, my five kids, that I lost our house. I lost all the beautiful things that were the shiny widgets that I had accumulated, were all taken away from me. And that crucifixion caused me so much inner pain because I made it all about me. How could I let the team down?" he said.
During this difficult time, the Yellowstone star says that he turned to God even more and quit drinking thanks to his wife stepping in.
"It's just a cold, hard fact that God gave me an amazing, incredible, most amazing woman that I've ever met. I can talk forever about it, but she's my good luck charm, and she got through me hell, and now here I am, in a fantastic place in life that we're producing movies together. And I can't tell you how amazing that feels," he said.
Sounds like he's come a long way.
