{"id":137511,"date":"2024-12-09T23:01:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T23:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/09\/ryan-reynolds-had-a-complicated-relationship-with-his-father\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T23:01:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T23:01:42","slug":"ryan-reynolds-had-a-complicated-relationship-with-his-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/09\/ryan-reynolds-had-a-complicated-relationship-with-his-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Reynolds had a &#8216;complicated&#8217; relationship with his father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-12-09\" datetime=\"1733785302\" pubdate=\"\">9 December 2024<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/ryan-reynolds\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,ryan-reynolds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryan Reynolds<\/a> had a &#8220;very complicated&#8221; relationship with his dad.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Ryan Reynolds had a complicated relationship with his dad<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old actor was raised in a &#8220;blue-collar home&#8221; and he&#8217;s recalled his dad &#8211; who died in 2015, after a 20-year battle with Parkinson\u2019s disease &#8211; communicating via &#8220;simple grunts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Deadpool&#8217; star told Variety: &#8220;My relationship with my father was very complicated. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ryan has actually reevaluated his relationship with his dad in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe actor &#8211; who is married to movie star Blake Lively &#8211; explained: &#8220;People tell themselves stories, and we have some responsibility as we grow older to question that a little bit. I\u2019ve done that a bit more in the last five years; I didn\u2019t know myself until I was probably 40-ish. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I ask that question often: &#8216;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.&#8217; The story is not true; nobody\u2019s black and white like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nRyan previously revealed that his dad&#8217;s illness widened the divide between himself and his father.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe actor told PEOPLE: &#8220;At the time I just thought, \u2018My dad\u2019s losing his mind.\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;There would be conspiratorial webs that he would spin about \u2018this is happening\u2019 and that \u2018these people might be after me\u2019 or \u2018this person is out to get me.\u2019 And just stuff that was such a wild departure from the man that I grew up with and knew.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/ryan-reynolds-complicated-relationship-father-1410332.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 December 2024 Ryan Reynolds had a &#8220;very complicated&#8221; relationship with his dad. Ryan Reynolds had a complicated relationship with his dad The 48-year-old actor was raised in a &#8220;blue-collar home&#8221; and he&#8217;s recalled his dad &#8211; who died in 2015, after a 20-year battle with Parkinson\u2019s disease &#8211; communicating via &#8220;simple grunts&#8221;. 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