He has spoken openly about how these experiences shaped his life and career.

I remember going out to buy weed in my underwear once.

Like it was too much work to pull on my pants."

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But there’s certainly more to his story.

Burrell also revealed that his wife, Holly, had herself quit acting a number of years prior.

“She still loves performing, but the business is so weird and hard.

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Fortunately, “Modern Family” came along and offered him long-term stability.

He saw Willard as a mentor, so Burrell deeply felt the loss of his TV dad.

However, Ferguson was a last-minute replacement.

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This is a jumping-off place,'” Ferguson said.

However, the actor has yet to appear in another major TV project since that show ended in 2022.

Just four months later, though, it came out that the project was effectively dead in the water.

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Sarah Hyland with Ty Burrell posing together

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