Ryan Reynolds Discusses His Complex Relationship with His Late Father
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Los Angeles, Dec 10 (NationPress) Hollywood icon Ryan Reynolds has disclosed that his relationship with his father was quite complex, as his father passed away in 2015 after battling Parkinson's disease for 20 years. The actor shared with Variety.com: "My relationship with my father was very complicated. I come from a middle-class, blue-collar home, and my dad was of that generation where he was Clint Eastwood. Simple grunts is how he communicated."
In recent years, Reynolds has taken the time to re-examine his connection with his father.
He expressed, "People tell themselves stories, and we have some responsibility as we grow older to question that a little bit. I’ve done that a bit more in the last five years; I didn’t know myself until I was probably 40-ish."
Reynolds contemplates often, "Was my dad as challenging as I like to think? Or am I romanticising that to pave over all these other things with whatever the drug is. The story is not true; nobody’s black and white like that."
Previously, Reynolds had mentioned that his father's illness deepened the rift between them, as reported by femalefirst.co.uk.
He stated, "At the time I just thought, ‘My dad’s losing his mind.’ My father was really slipping down a rabbit hole where he was struggling to differentiate between reality and fiction. And subsequently everyone else in his life was losing the bedrock faith and trust that they had on his point of view."
Reynolds further explained, "There would be conspiratorial webs that he would spin about ‘this is happening’ and that ‘these people might be after me’ or ‘this person is out to get me.’ And just stuff that was such a wild departure from the man that I grew up with and knew."
