Jason Segel is opening up about his reason for leaving Hollywood following the success of How I Met Your Mother.

The actor made a recent appearance on the Today show, where Hoda Kotb brought up Segel’s decision to move out of Los Angeles once the CBS sitcom wrapped in 2014. “You did something so interesting,” she said. “A lot of people would’ve just taken a big dive into Hollywood, but you did something else. You pulled up stakes and moved away from all that. Why’d you do that?”

“I was having a really roaring twenties,” the Shrinking star and co-creator responded. “I had How I Met Your Mother and I was also writing a bunch of movies that were successful and doing well.”

However, due to his busy work schedule with How I Met Your Mother and movies like 2008’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Segel realized he wasn’t...