Colin Farrell is elaborating on an enormous parenting resolution he made.
The “Penguin” star, 48, revealed in a brand new interview with Candis journal that he and his ex, mannequin Kim Bordenave, put their 21-year-old son James, who suffers from Angelman syndrome, in a long-term care facility.
“It’s tricky – some parents will say, ‘I want to take care of my child myself’, and I respect that,” mentioned Farrell, per The Unbiased.
“But my horror would be, what if I have a heart attack tomorrow, and, God forbid, James’ mother, Kim, has a car crash and she’s taken too – and then James is on his own?” he added. “[He’d be] a ward of the state. And he goes where? We’d have no say in it.”
Farrell mentioned the previous couple are attempting to “find somewhere we like where he can go now, while we’re still alive and healthy, that we can go and visit, and we can take him out sometimes”.
“We want him to find somewhere where he can have a full and happy life, where he feels connected,” Farrell shared of his son. “By going out in the van every day and going to the supermarket and doing the shopping together. By going to the beach, museums, movies, all that stuff. Just a connected life.”
Angelman syndrome is a uncommon neurogenetic dysfunction that causes delayed growth and issues with motion, stability and speech, in accordance with the Mayo Clinic.
James was identified with Angelman syndrome when he was simply 2 1/2 years previous.
Farrell and Bordenave, 53, filed for a conservatorship of their son in 2021 earlier than his 18th birthday.
Final yr, the actor launched the Colin Farrell Basis, which goals to supply help for grownup youngsters with mental disabilities, in James’ honor.
“Once your child turns 21, they’re kind of on their own,” Farrell informed Individuals in Aug. 2024. “All the safeguards that are put in place, special ed classes, that all goes away, so you’re left with a young adult who should be an integrated part of our modern society and more often than not is left behind.”
The “Banshees of Inisherin” star additionally recalled studying of James’ analysis and the way he reacted to the information from the docs.
“I remember the first two questions I asked were, ‘What’s the life expectancy and how much pain is involved?’” Farrell defined. “And the doctor said, ‘Life expectancy, as far as we can tell, is the same for you and for me, and pain, no.’”
Farrell has one other son, 14-year-old Henry Tadeusz Farrell, with Polish actress Alicja Bachleda-Curuś.
