Barry Keoghan has really opened up in a new interview with Louis Theroux.
The 32-year-old actor recently appeared on The Louis Theroux Podcast and spoke about his difficult childhood, as well as dealing with social media trolls.
“If I didn’t have tough skin or the strength to have, I wouldn’t be sitting here. Of course, (my childhood is) going to affect me being a father when I had no blueprint to take from.”
He continued: “People just read that (as) laziness and go, ‘Oh, that’s no excuse to be an absent father’. I’m not an absent father.”
He spoke about why he’s stopped posting photos of his young son Brando, whom he shares with his ex.
“It’s just, again, people love to use my son as ammunition or whatever. And it kind of leads me to stop, the more attention I’ve got lately and the more in the public I’ve become, the less I’ve posted about my child, because I don’t think it’s fair to put my child online.”
But the actor noted that the less he posts about his son, the more it leads people to speculate that he’s an absent father.
“People draw a narrative and go ‘absent father, shit, deadbeat dad’, and more disgusting things I wouldn’t even repeat,” the Saltburn actor told Louis Theroux.
“Just the audacity of some people, man. It sickens me, makes me furious,” he added.
You can listen to Barry Keoghan’s full interview with Louis Theroux here.
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