‘Sex and the City’ alum slept on floors in Paris for 6 months — could only afford one cucumber and cheese

“Sex and nan City” alum Jason Lewis reflected connected his rocky roadworthy to fame and having to slumber connected floors successful Paris pinch astir nary money for nutrient earlier booking nan ’90s deed TV series.

The actor, who portrayed Samantha Jones’ (Kim Cattrall) love liking Smith Jerrod, elaborate his struggles erstwhile he relocated to Europe to exemplary astatine nan property of 21.

“I starved for a while,” he shared connected a caller section of his co-star Kristin Davis’ podcast, “Are You a Charlotte?”

Lewis, 55, would scout retired bakeries and bargain a baguette.

“Then, I would spell to for illustration an outdoor cafe … and return a cookware of their mustard and dump it connected [the baguette], and past I’d person mustard breadstuff sandwiches for a batch of my meals,” he continued.

“So slept connected floors,” nan “Mr. Brooks” prima told Davis, 61, explaining that his life changed erstwhile he booked a gig.

“I deliberation my first for illustration decent money started coming successful astir a twelvemonth and a half later,” Lewis said. “So location was for illustration a six-month starvation play wherever I could bargain this 1 cucumber and this portion of cheese.”

“It was easy to enactment skinny, though,” he quipped.

Lewis made his debut arsenic Samantha’s young exemplary boyfriend, Smith, connected “SATC” successful 2003 for nan series’ sixth and last play erstwhile he was 32.

Samantha, who worked arsenic a publicist, helped Smith’s profession skyrocket arsenic their narration took an unexpectedly superior turn.

The duo’s characters moreover stuck together while Samantha was battling cancer, and were yet still a mates erstwhile nan bid wrapped successful 2004.

Lewis reprised his domiciled successful nan 2008 “Sex and nan City” movie and nan 2010 sequel, though he and Cattrall’s characters had divided and remained friends.

He wasn’t asked to rejoin nan cast, minus Cattrall, for nan HBO reboot “And Just Like That,” which was canceled aft 3 seasons past summer.

Cattrall, 69, didn’t motion onto nan series, speech from making a little cameo successful Season 2, amid her longtime feud pinch Sarah Jessica Parker, who portrayed Carrie Bradshaw.

Additionally, nan character told Piers Morgan successful a 2017 question and reply that she had “never been friends” pinch her different castmates, alluding to Davis (Charlotte York) and Cynthia Nixon (Miranda Hobbes).

Lewis, meanwhile, went power silent after he competed connected “Dancing With nan Stars” during Season 31 successful 2022.

However, he resurfaced successful May to denote he had moved to Costa Rica and had written a nine-book imagination series, which has yet to beryllium revealed.

“After 3 years, it was time,” he captioned nan post.