“We want to say thank you, Hollywood,” McDonough’s wife, Ruvé Robertson, said during a joint interview with TMZ on Thursday. “I don’t like how people are saying that Hollywood turned its back on Neal. No, it didn’t. The right people found Neal and put him in the right place.”

Neal McDonough, who has a strict rule about kissing his onscreen costars, claims Hollywood "turned" on him for the conservative stance.

Neal McDonough has spoken out about a period in his career when he was blacklisted by Hollywood. The actor recently revealed that his refusal to kiss co-stars on screen led to severe professional consequences.