Ryan Reynolds Admits He Wasn’t Accepting His Own Responsibility During His Late Father’s Battle With Parkinson’s Disease

Ryan Reynolds opened up about his late father’s battle with Parkinson’s disease. The actor lost his father James Chester Reynolds in 2015 after 20 years of long battle with the disease. The star shared the challenges that his father faced because of his health issues. He also shared what his father went through during that phase of his life. Ryan said that he was not accepting his own responsibility. He also shared that now he feels that he was not ready to see his father in that condition. 

In an interview with People, Ryan said “He said the word ‘Parkinson’s’ maybe three times as far as I knew — and one of them wasn’t to me. There was a ton of denial, a ton of hiding.”

He continued, “man who does not share his feelings. He was a boxer, a cop, a hard-a**. I can’t even recall ever really having a proper conversation with my father. He was a present father, never missed a football game, but he just didn’t have the capacity to feel, or at least share, the full spectrum of human emotion a bit.”

“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 in his point of view,” the actor added.