Rory Cowan has revealed the heartbreaking reason behind leaving 'Mrs Brown's Boys'

It's no secret that Rory has left the hit show 'Mrs Brown Boys' once and for all, but no one quite knew the reason why.

Rory has just recently done an interview with RTE's Saturday Night where he has revealed all his reasoning behind leaving - and it's a lot sadder than what we anticipated.

"My mother has dementia. Before we left things were bad but she was still mobile.

"When I was in Australia I got word that she had days to live and I couldn't get home. I couldn't get home because it was an insurance issue.

"They said 'If your mother dies you can go home for a week and come back all the way to Australia, but if she doesn't die you can't go because if people want their money back for refunds, even if you're not in the show, even though Brendan is the star, you'd have to pay full price for every seat, which would have worked out at hundreds of thousands of dollars'.

"They explained it to me, they said 'It's just to stop other actors in a similar situation or musicians to not drop out of a tour'."

So it seems that the legalities binding him to the tour were too much when his mother was in need.

It's certainly a shame that he had to leave the show, but we now can sympathise with the star and see his reasoning.