Barry Keoghan has been honest about life as a father since welcoming son Brando with ex-girlfriend Alyson Sandro in August ...

Despite my father's ... far from the mother-daughter dynamic I’d seen in others all my life. I was 26 when I reconnected with my mother. By then, she had been physically absent for 20 years ...

Barry Keoghan has been plagued with those “absent dad” memes and criticisms for years, and now, he’s officially putting his foot down, While speaking on The Louis Theroux podcast ...

“I'm not an absent father.” This comment relates to quotes from Keoghan earlier this year ... but I'm on about little stuff like teaching your son this or teaching your daughter that.” This led to ...

“Of course, it's going to affect me being a father when I had no blueprint to take from. People just read that [as] laziness and go, ‘Oh, that’s no excuse to be an absent father.’ ...

Of course, (my childhood is) going to affect me being a father when I had no blueprint to take from. “People just read that (as) laziness and go, ‘Oh, that’s no excuse to be an absent father’.

"Because I reigned that in, people draw a narrative and go 'absent father … deadbeat dad,' and more disgusting things I wouldn't even repeat," Keoghan said. "Just the audacity of some people ...

“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 added. “But it’s just, again, people love to use my son ...

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