Colin Farrell asked for guardianship of his teenage son with Angelman syndrome

Colin Farrell he knows what it’s like to hang on to the edge of the cliff and run away. In 2016, he was chosen as a perfume ambassador for Dolce & Gabbana baptized Intense, and the name fits like a glove to the story of this Irish actor who He became a star at the beginning of the century, he disappeared consumed in his addictions and he is reborn years later without alcoholism but always attentive to possible relapses.

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One of the driving forces behind this change has been the arrival of his son James, who is currently 17, and born with Angelman syndrome, a genetic disease that affects the nervous system and causes serious delays in intellectual, linguistic and psychomotor development.

On September 12, the teenager will be 18 and Farrell and the young man’s mother, the model Kim bordenave from whom he separated in 2003, they applied for guardianship of their son to continue to be legally responsible for him when he reaches the age of majority.

To achieve this, they had to submit full documentation last week detailing James’ situation and the reason for the request made by his parents. In his case, the disease – which affects one in 20,000 people– causes him to be unable to speak, to have “fine motor problems” and to be unable to take care of “his own health and well-being”. This is clear from a series of reports published by the site Page six.

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The reasons detailed in the request presented to the court are to grant their parents guardianship and they can have access to their child’s confidential files even when they are of legal age; in addition to be authorized to grant or withhold medical consents and make decisions on your behalf.

A process known to many parents who have children with similar illnesses, but which in Farrell’s case has gained some media attention because James was also one of the reasons the actor realized that everything in his life was excessive. and that had to change.

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Farrell was born 44 years ago in Castleknock, Ireland, where he grew up as a teenager with a passion for football and an admirer of Diego Maradona above all else.

He realized that his passion did not go hand in hand with his footballing skills and began to study drama in Dublin. At that time, he showed how he could become a good performer and also how much he enjoyed using alcohol and drugs. Even like this finds his place in the world of theater and was lucky, because in his rise to stardom, he also played in his favor that one day Kevin spacey was part of the audience of the theater in which he worked.

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This is how he came to Hollywood 22 years ago, with little experience in theater and television in Ireland, but which has fascinated directors. The fame came as fast as the actor’s madness: women, alcohol and cocaine were his daily companions. Then his son was born, scandals were added which turned against him and blockbusters which were a fiasco.

In 2005, he assumed he was solely responsible for her situation., entered a drug rehab clinic and decided to change. In 2016, he explained in an interview in the magazine ICON since then, he has been careful not to fall back into his addictions: “I had to find out who he was day after day. You have to fill in the gaps with something else. My current life is busy“.

He also recalled that when he found himself lost, he had to think about his future and the meaning of his work because there was a moment when he had even thought of giving up his career: “Afterwards Corruption in Miami (in 2006) I was tired. I took time and I thought about the reasons why pre-madness Colin wanted to keep playing. I came to the conclusion that he loved the profession and that it was also a good way to make a living. “

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During this meeting, he also confessed that if Twitter had existed at the beginning of his career, the interview would be done behind bars: “Today, it is more difficult to do stupid things and there is less freedom” , did he declare. His sincerity cost him scandalous headlines that haunted him for years, even when his life had little to do with the one before.

Currently, he is guided by these sensations which put him at ease in his skin. He talks with his children (he is also the father of Henry, 12, with actress Alicja Bachleda-Curús) about things he says he cannot deal with his father and claims that don’t like being away from them when forced by shootings.

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He had to deny exotic claims about him, such as his pledging to celibacy by following a Buddhist precept. He also practices yoga and is very careful not to fall back into addictions. He has been sober for almost 15 years.

At the end of May 2018, he returned to a rehabilitation center in the United States to “avoid falling back into the rabbit hole” after a year of intense work. The Bad Boy is now a mature actor who has once again stabilized his career and his life and seems ready to no longer touch the abyss.