People kind of have a judgment on me as a parent and I’m like, ‘Well until you’ve walked a day in my shoes growing up as a kid… then you can comment.’ There’s a lot online. If I didn’t have tough skin or…
the strength, I wouldn’t be sitting here. 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.’ But I am not an absent father.
The more attention I’ve gotten 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. There are sick people out there. Because I reined that in, people draw a narrative and go, ‘Absent father, shit, deadbeat dad,’ and more disgusting things I wouldn’t even repeat. Just the audacity of some people, man, it sickens me. It makes me furious.
– Actor Barry Keoghan, 32, on the criticism he’s received online for being an alleged “deadbeat dad” to son Brando, 2, whom he shares with ex Alyson Sandro.
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