Mina Starsiak Hawk Details Tense Final ‘Good Bones’ Season: “It Was Getting To A Point Where I Couldn’t Handle The Stakes”

Mina Starsiak Hawk isn’t keen on returning to Good Bones — but would she do it for a million dollars? That may be a different story.

Hawk starred alongside her mother, Karen E Laine, on the HGTV reality series, where they renovated homes in Indianapolis. The show ended after eight seasons last October, and this week, she opened up about the experience on her Mina AF podcast, per Deadline.

“The last two seasons were really, really hard emotionally and mentally, financially and physically as well,” she shared.

She eventually felt the “weight,” both financially and of deadlines, and noted that eventually, “the stakes were so high.”

“It was all my money. It was my family’s money. It was my business’s success,” she lamented, referring to Two Chicks and a Hammer.

Hawk has been forthright about her experiences, disclosing last August on her podcast that she was not “in a great place” with her mother, nor her brother Tad, per TV Insider. She reiterated this sentiment to People the following month, noting that she and her mother “were in some of the most challenging places” she felt they’d ever been in while shooting Season 8.

On her most recent episode, she said she ultimately found herself at a point where she “couldn’t handle the stakes,” nor the growing projects and risks. While she said she “would love to” make another show, she highlighted that she would only do that “if [she] could find a way to do it with a balance that was healthier.”

After recalling someone approaching her with a “show idea” that “leans back into the older Good Bones model [and] maybe working with some of those people again,” she explained her opposition.

“I just think it would be a really bad decision for me, like, mentally and emotionally, let alone financially, to kinda get back in that place,” she said. “They were like, ‘Yeah, but you’ll get paid.’ And I said, ‘There’s not enough money in the world that would put me in the place I was a year ago, because it was that bad.'”

She continued, “And that’s probably a lie. If someone was like, ‘I’ll give you a million dollars an episode,’ and I had to go back to that place for a year, but I’d be set for the rest of my life, maybe that would be worth it… There’s no realistic amount of money that I think would be worth it to struggle as hard as I was struggling. And I think that’s very hard for people to understand — how much I was in, like, a really bad place.”

HGTV alum and former Extreme Makeover: Home Edition host Ty Pennington showed his support for Hawk’s comments on Instagram, commenting on her post with the podcast clip, “❤️ Never go Backwards. … only Forward !”

Good Bones is streaming on discovery+ and Max.