Colin Farrell explained the difficult decision to put his 21 -year -old son James Farrell in a long -term care establishment.
“It’s delicate – some parents will say:” I want to take care of my child myself “, and I respect this,” said Colin, 48, in an interview with Candis Magazine published in April, via The independent.
THE Penguin The actor spoke in the past of the son James – which he shares with the old partner Kim Bordénave – Having Angelman syndrome, a genetic disorder that has an impact on the nervous system and can cause a disability of development as well as problems of speech and balance.
Since James was 21 years old in September 2024, Colin worked with Bordenave to find an establishment where their son will always be well taken care of.
“My horror would be, and if I had a heart attack tomorrow, and God preserves us, James’ mother, Kim, has a car accident and she is taken too – and then James is alone?” The actor noted. “”[He’d be] A state room. And where is it going? We would not have a say.
Colin said he was thinking that he is better for James to pass his son into a healthy environment “while we are still alive and healthy, that we can go to visit, and we can get him out sometimes.”
“We want him to find a place where he can have a full and happy life, where he feels connected,” he added. “Going out in the van every day and going to the supermarket and shopping together. Going to the beach, museums, films, all that. Just a connected life.”
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The actor nominated in the Oscars spoke publicly publicly of James having Angelman syndrome in 2007. In September 2024, Colin opened James non -verbal and requiring specific care.
“I speak to James as if he was 20 years old and has a mastery of the English language and a cognitive capacity adapted to age,” he said People “But I cannot discern a particular response from him to find out if he is comfortable with all this or not, so I have to make a call by knowing James’ mind and what kind of young man he is and the kindness he has in his heart.”
Colin said at the time that he was talking about James’ trip to convince “the world of being nice” to non -verbal people, like his son.
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“I want the world to treat him with kindness and respect,” he said. “Once your child is 21, he is sort of alone. All the guarantees that are implemented, special emergency courses, which disappear, so you end up with a young adult who should be integrated from our modern society and most often is left behind. ”
Colin is also the father of the 15 year old son Henry Tadeusz Farrell, whom he shares with his Ondine Costar Alicja Bachleda-Curu. In April 2024, Colin joked That he had a “rotten tomato committee at home” because his sons were his “most difficult” criticisms.
“They are both at this stage of life where they can see roughly what they want,” said Colin. “Many things I have done, especially with the ages they were, they could never take a look [before now]. “”
