Ted Danson, who stars in Netflix's new series 'A Man on the Inside', opens up to PEOPLE in this week's issue about why he's confident he and wife Mary Steenburgen wouldn't have worked out had they met earlier in life.

"I was not really fully emotionally baked until shortly before I met Mary," Ted Danson, who married Mary Steenburgen in 1995, said.

Ted Danson expressed how grateful he is for meeting his wife Mary Steenburgen in his 40s. In an exclusive interview with People, The Good Place alum claimed that the couple never would have

Ted Danson "wasn't fully emotionally baked" before he met his wife Mary Steenburgen, and doesn't think they would have worked out had they met much earlier.