Max Bowden has opened up about why he left EastEnders after working on a number of tough storylines over nearly 600 episodes, which left him 'needing to focus on his mental health'
EastEnders star Max Bowden revealed the reason he left the BBC soap, confessing he was struggling with the tough filming commitments.
The 29-year-old actor - who played Ben Mitchell, the son of Kathy Beale and Phil Mitchell between 2019 and 2024 until his character got imprisoned in America - has now confessed that he opted to say goodbye to the BBC soap opera because he was "very tired" after doing covering emotionally gruelling stories over "nearly 600 episodes."
Opening up about calling it quits on the The Lewis Nicholls Show, Max said: "The important thing was my time was ready. I was very tired, and like I said, I wasn't me, I wasn't." The Max sat in front of you today was kind of a ghost, and they recognised that I recognised that." "From an honest perspective, I think yeah, a lot of it was that I needed to go for a bit. I needed to go work on me, get myself back to a place of really good mental health, focus on healing and also be a dad."
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