United Kingdom, June 1 -- Lost star Matthew Fox has explained why he left Los Angeles and moved to Italy.

The 59-year-old actor - who became a huge star playing Dr. Jack Shepard in Lost from 2004 to 2010 - stepped away from his career on the small screen in 2015 and swapped his home in LA for a new life in Italy - and he's now revealed he made the move so he could get out of the spotlight and spend more time with his wife, Margherita Ronchi, and their kids Kyle and Byron.

Matthew told PEOPLE: "I spent a lot of time, for a few years there [in Los Angeles], heavily in the spotlight, specifically with Lost, and then did a couple of years of doing films after that," Fox said. "For me, the step away was more about spending time with my famil...