Ryan Reynolds gets candid about grief and relationship with late father

Ryan Reynolds recently opened up about his complicated relationship with his late father and how it still ambushes him and affects deeply.

During a Q&A for a new documentary he has produced, John Candy: I Like Me, Ryan got candid about grief hitting him at “weird times.”

He said, “When my father passed away, we had a complicated relationship. There’s an episode with Jimmy Fallon where you’ll see me lose my train of thought… it just hits me like a freight train,” The Deadpool actor shared.

Ryan explained that he tried to recover quickly with humor, but moments like that remind him how unpredictable grief can be. “It finds you at the weirdest moments,” he said, adding that even kind words often feel “inconsequential” because grief is so personal.

His father, James Reynolds, died in 2015 at 74 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.

In the years since, the Deadpool star has launched the awareness campaign, More to Parkinson’s, with Acadia Pharmaceuticals attempting to shed light on the condition’s lesser-known symptoms, like hallucinations and delusions.

Reynolds's involvement in the campaign is deeply personal, stemming from his father's struggles with the disease and the impact of the symptoms on their family.