Barry Keoghan is speaking out about growing up in foster care and the lasting impact it had on his life.
The 32-year-old actor appeared on SiriusXM’s “This Life of Mine with James Corden,” where he was asked about his upbringing.
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James Corden asked, “For anyone listening who doesn’t quite understand what foster care is, what’s the longest or the shortest that you spend in different families over that…5 or 6 year period?”
He shared, “Two years was one. And you know, as a kid, you don’t know what’s going on. You’re basically attaching to anyone who’ll show you some sort of, you know…these people are taking you because they want to look after you and help your journey, but they become your family….You arrive and like, this is it. And then you get took and you go to another one and that starts to affect you. You know, as you grow up and wherever.”
He then spoke about “trust issues,” saying “You don’t trust the process of anything. You have a problem with attachment and abandonment. All of these things that I’ve been working on for many years with several therapists. You know, all these moments in your life, like being a father and grown up and having your first movie premiere and all of these things. It just comes back and knocks on the door….Never trusted love, never trusted that someone wanted to know me or, let’s say be a friend, for instance, or, you know, I always kind of questioned it. You know, you’re hard wired differently. You have to really be aware and be honest and be brutally honest with yourself and, you know, to work on these things.”
He continued, “And then having a child myself, you know, these things come into play and like, what do I show my child? You know, usually people have something to draw from. You know, they have a blueprint or they have some sort of experience from their father. But I had none.”
If you missed the news, Barry and his girlfriend of a year, Sabrina Carpenter, just broke up.
