Michael Weatherly of NCIS has no idea about her sister’s death for three days

NCIS Star Michael Weatherley It was revealed that it took him several days to discover that his sister was dead while filming.

Weatherly, 57, plays the role of Tony Dinozzo in Paramount+ spin-off NCIS: Tony & Zivarecalling the behavior of disengagement after experiencing several personal losses.

“I took a few years off because I burned myself into a puddle. I was directing and performing, doing 125 episodes of bulls. I started to see the writing on the wall and I said, ‘It’s very tired.’ Hello! Magazine Wednesday, September 3. “I didn’t connect with the character in a way that felt like I was flowing, so I took the time.”

The actor says he is “busy to make TV” When his sister died He “didn’t find out for three days.” His brother and father died in 2023 and 2024, respectively, when he was during the delivery of Tony & Ziva.

“It’s interesting how many people have moved to the next plane over the last few years,” Weatherley said. “It’s brought my world back up dramatically.”

weather Originally starred NCIS As Tony Dinozzo, who later appeared on CBS as Season 1 to Season 13 bull From 2016 to 2022, during which time he was accused of sexual harassment by Costar Eliza Dushku. The actress accused Weatherly of making several inappropriate comments about her, receiving a $9.5 million settlement from CBS.

“The weather has an exaggerated eyeball and the habit of touching me; once, he leaned into my body and sucked into my body, smelling the dramatic drowsy smell,” Dushku wrote in the December 2018 Boston Globe Op-Ed. “As caught on the videotape, I blew a line in one, and he yelled in his face, ‘I’ll take you to kneel on my knee and spank like a little girl.'”

weather Apologize in the statement I went to The New York Times the same month.

“I made some jokes during the recording of the show, laughing at some lines in the script,” he said at the time. “When Eliza told me that she was not satisfied with my language and tried humor, I was happy to get angry with her and apologized immediately. After thinking about this further, I better understand what I said was neither funny nor appropriate, and I regretted that this caused Eliza.”

While reflecting on his return to TV, Weatherly admits it was not an easy decision.

“My wife and I have been having this conversation all the time. It’s hard to look at myself,” he said in an interview Wednesday. “You have to go through the bottom of yourself and I was able to get there – I did a lot of therapy, I did a lot of estimation and checking on different things.”

Weatherly’s time is also resting Make him more picky About the job he is engaged in.

“When I was at some point in my career, I would say, ‘If you feel wrong, it must be right, because everything will be wrong.’ I spent a lot of time and scrutinizing those words and now, if you feel wrong, I said, “Let’s talk about it.” ” “I don’t care what people think of me. But, in a good way – I want to be understood. ”

NCIS: Tony & Ziva Paramount+ airs a new episode on Thursday.