Ryan Reynolds opens up about how the heartbreak caused by a complicated relationship with his late father still catches him off guard.
Speaking during a Q&A session for a new documentary he produced John Candy: I like myselfReynolds admitted that grief “hits you at strange times.”
“When my father died, we had a complicated relationship,” he explained. “There’s an episode with Jimmy Fallon where you’ll see me lose my train of thought…it hits me like a freight train.”
Reynolds, 48, said he tried to make a quick recovery with humor, but moments like that remind him how unpredictable grief can be. “It surprises you in the strangest times,” he said, adding that even kind words often seem “inconsequential” because grief is so personal.
His father, James Reynolds, died in 2015 at age 74 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. In the years that followed, the dead Pool The star collaborated with the More to Parkinson’s awareness campaign to shed light on the disease’s lesser-known symptoms, like hallucinations and delusions.
