He was clinically depressed while working on the show.
"I didn't know it yet, but I was the happiest depressed person in North America," the 49-year-old actor said."I was struggling with severe clinical depression the whole time I was on that show. It was my job to be utterly and completely full of joy and wonder at all times, and that became impossible.
He added that he thinks he understands why the rumors persist, even though he feels defensive of the show. "I think the dissonance of that is really satisfying, you know, the idea that a children's television show host would be involved in such nefarious activities," Burns said."It's overwhelmingly satisfying if you're 14. But that actually is the only thing that upsets me about the rumor. I just hate the idea ofbeing associated with anything like that. We just all worked way too hard on it.
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