James Corden admitted this week that he was so terrified of being fired from his gig hosting “The Late Late Show” that he waited a full two years to buy furniture after he was hired.

“When we moved here, my wife and I, we had two kids at that point, and I wouldn’t allow us to buy furniture,” he said while appearing on “The Drew Barrymore Show” on Friday. “We rented all of our furniture.”

Corden and his wife, Julia Carey, are the parents of three young children, yet despite their growing family, he insisted on temporary furniture.

“I said to my wife Julia, ‘I’m going to get fired, this won’t work. And as soon as we get fired, we’ll just want to get back to London, so we don’t want to be lumbered with a couch,'” he recalled.

This mindset did not go away for another two years.

“Eventually my wife was like, ‘Please can we buy some furniture?'” Corden remembered. “And I was like, ‘OK, I think we are safe to buy furniture now.’ That’s been every day of my adult life, really. I’ve thought I’m going to get fired at some point.”

The late night host actually sees his fears of getting fired as “quite a healthy point of view” because it makes him appreciate what he has while he has it.

“I think outside of even work, just in life, if you can constantly try to Google Earth yourself, realize where you are, realize what you are doing, fundamentally hang onto the very things that are important,” Corden said. “Counting those blessings and checking your privilege and all those things I think are really useful and necessary things to do.”

He added that being honest about feelings and fears is one benefit to the current problems in the world.

“I actually think that is one of the few positives you can take from coronavirus, is if you and I had talked a year ago I would say, ‘How are you doing?’ And you’d go, ‘I’m great, everything’s great.’ And I would go, ‘Same, everything’s fantastic,'” Corden explained. “And actually there has been an amazing thing that has happened over these last past six, seven months where I will talk to friends of mine at home and I’ll go, ‘How are you doing?’ and they will go, ‘You know what? I am struggling to be honest. I’m struggling.'”

“…That’s a great thing, to be able to say, ‘This is how I feel,'” he continued. “That’s a really lovely thing that I hope we don’t lose when we are on the other side of this.”