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"Homestead" star Bailey Chase is opening up about the "final straw" that drove him and his family out of California for a new life in North Carolina.

During a recent interview with Fox News Digital, the 54-year-old actor, who shares daughter Waverly, 12, and 10-year-old twins Maggie and Gauge with his wife Amy, explained that concerns over how California's COVID-19 restrictions would impact his children led him to leave the Golden State behind.

"That happened five years ago in the throes of COVID," Chase said. "My wife and I picked up sticks with our three young children when they were mandating vaccines out there."

"They said they couldn't go back to school without it," Chase, who stars as former Green Beret Jeff Eriksson in "Homestead," continued. "And that was the final straw.…