YouTuber MrBeast reveals he's struggling with his mental health and claims he lost 'tens of millions'

YouTuber MrBeast has revealed he's struggling with his mental health - and claimed he lost tens of millions on the Beast Games. MrBeast, real name Jimmy Donaldson, from Greenville, North Carolina, who is the biggest YouTuber in the world with more than 300 million subscribers, appeared on Dragon Den's star Steven Bartlett's The Diary of a CEO podcast.

Last year he teamed up with Amazon MGM Studios to create a reality competition show called Beast Games where 1,000 people competed for$10 million- the biggest cash prize in entertainment history. Jimmy, who made his debut as a television host for controversial game show, admitted to investing his own money into the project and subsequently losing millions.

The 26-year-old revealed they spent over $100 million making the show and reflected it wasn't a sensible financial decision. Asked how out of pocket if he for making the series he said: 'Tens of millions, it was not a good financial decision to make Beast Games, I lost money, I would have more money if I didn't film it.

'I lost a ton of money filming that show, so that came out of my pocket because we spent way too much money on it, I lost tens of millions of dollars on that show, I'm an idiot. 'So episode one we spent over $15 million on those towers, building them, that was the most towers ever built, the most hydraulic press used.

YouTuber MrBeast, real name Jimmy Donaldson, from Greenville, North Carolina ,revealed he's struggling with his mental health and claimed he lost tens of millions on the Beast Games. 'We had to put up all the screens, I mean that was that's like arguably one of the largest sets ever built in history that was just episode one and that's just the construction of the set.

'That's not including when we we gave away over $20 million, I think over two million was in episode one and then episode two we have the city which was  $14 million dollar set build. 'It was huge because that was a real city that they were living in. Just between the $22 million that we gave away plus those two sets, I mean already right there you're probably you're at over $50 million.'.

MrBeast revealed that throughout the entirety of the series more than $20 million had been given away to 85 out of the 1,000 players. Every player was given $2,000 for competing. However the content creator said he had absolutely no regrets in making the series because it opened doors for other creators to make shows with streaming platforms.

He said: 'For me, it was about making season one as good as possible, I can't let the YouTube Community down because creators don't have a good rep when it comes to doing stuff on streaming platforms. 'Even me, these streaming platforms weren't taking me serious so I was like if I fail it's over, like no streaming platform is ever going to touch a YouTuber ever again, so my big thing was just making sure this crushed and you know now the doors are opening up.

'I already know of two creators that have signed deals just on the back of the success of Beast Games and probably hundreds of hundreds of millions of dollars is going to flow into creator's pockets just because of Beast Games in the next year.'. Last year he teamed up with Amazon MGM Studios to create a reality competition show called Beast Games where 1,000 people compete for the biggest cash prize in entertainment history, $10 million.

MrBeast, who is the biggest YouTuber in the world with more than 300 million subscribers, appeared on Dragon Den's star Steven Bartlett 's The Diary of a CEO podcast. The reality game show, which aired its final episode last week, broke 44 Guinness World Record titles during filming including most cameras used, largest physical cash prize, most participants and the most expensive season of a competitive reality TV show.

The 26-year-old revealed they spent over $100 million making the show and claimed it wasn't a good financial decision. The reality game show, which aired its final episode last week, broke 44 Guinness World Record titles during filming including most cameras used, largest physical cash prize, most participants and the most expensive season of a competitive reality TV show.

Elsewhere the media personality, and businessman revealed he struggles with his mental health because of the pressure of his multiple businesses. He said: 'If my mental health was a priority I wouldn't be as successful as I am, and that's just a sad fact.

'I am like f*** why am I doing this? This is so f***ing hard. It's just a lot man you're just going constantly. Asked if he was 'happy', he added: 'This year so far, I'm more unhappy than happy and it's just, they're just things you got to do that just aren't fun.

'It just all rests my shoulders and if I don't film there is no content, like the channel just literally ceases if I stop filming.'. However the American YouTuber said he would never stop making content on his channel, despite often considering quitting due to burnout.