Comedian Devon Walker has revealed his reasons for leaving Saturday Night Live after calling the show “toxic as hell.”

“To be frank, I guess the best way I put it is like me and the show kind of looked at each other, and we decided together that it was time to go our separate ways,” Walker told Ruling Stone. “I think I felt ready to leave the show, and I think the show felt ready to leave me. I was just ready to do something else. We both felt like it was time.”

Walker said that his job at SNL “was such a big time commitment and life commitment” that he missed out on a lot of “life stuff.”

“I felt ready to do a different version of my life,” he said.

The 34-year-old actor announced his departure via social media last week in an Instagram post that he captioned “me and baby broke up”

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