Ryan Reynolds opens up about how the pain of his complicated relationship with his late father still takes him by surprise.
Speaking during a Q&A session about a new documentary he produced John Candy: I liked it.Reynolds admitted that pain “hits you at strange times.”
“When my father passed away, we had a complicated relationship,” he shared. “There’s an episode with Jimmy Fallon where you’ll see me lose my train of thought… it just hits me like a freight train.”
Reynolds, 48, explained that she tried to recover quickly with humor, but moments like that remind her how unpredictable grief can be. “It finds you in the strangest of times,” she 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 subsequent years, the deadpool Star has worked with the More About Parkinson’s awareness campaign to shed light on the disease’s lesser-known symptoms, such as hallucinations and delusions.
