Matthew Morrison Says Glee Was Hard on His Mental Health: ‘So Stressed I Broke into the Craziest Psoriasis’

• Matthew Morrison says he got the “craziest psoriasis” while starring in the hit Fox series joy
• The make-up artists from the show would cover up the psoriasis on his face, but he said removing the make-up was often painful.
• Morrison said he “loved the experience.” joy but it was a challenging time for him

Matthew Morrison says he was “filled with gratitude” to star in the smash hit joy“I was so stressed, I broke into the craziest psoriasis” from the high stakes.

Morrison, 45, told former actors Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz on Thursday’s episode of their podcast, And that’s what you really missed that he struggled with his busy schedule. He was trying to coordinate recording and promotion joy while making time for his own live performances — and dealing with the public perception of his character, glee club director Will “Mr. Schue” Schuester.

“You have all these news feeds, like criticism of the way you play your character or people trying to bring you down,” Paris Christmas Waltz said the star. “All of that had a big impact on my life.”

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“[I had] some super high highs, but also some really devastating lows,” Morrison shared of the Fox hit that ended its run in 2015. “Our bodies are not designed to go through that kind of pressure.”

Both McHale and Ushkowitz said they remember Morrison’s psoriasis outbreak, but McHale added, “I didn’t know why” it happened.

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“I think it was just everything that built up, and for me it was just a physical manifestation of what I was feeling inside,” Morrison said. “Psoriasis was all over my body, but my face was fine. But then it slowly started to reach my ears and eyelids.”

As the Cleveland Clinic notes, “there is no cure” for psoriasis, which is characterized by “thick, scaly areas” of skin that break out, sometimes unexpectedly. “Emotional stress” may be the cause.

Matthew Morrison.

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Morrison said the show’s makeup artist “did her best to cover it up” during filming, but added that “at the end of the day, she had to take everything off and the skin would come off with the makeup.”

“So painful, and for God’s sake, I feel like I’m emotional,” Morrison said, sounding choked up. “It was really challenging.”

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“Long story short, I loved the experience and I appreciated it for what it was, but it was really challenging and it was hard to put our bodies through 16 hours a day and then all the other things we had to do on top of that,” Morrison continued.

“And not like, ‘woe is me, because it was an amazing opportunity, but we were all there, it was like a war.’

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