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'James was a big part of me getting sober - I was in no position to be a father to a child like him': He was an infamous hellraiser. But now Hollywood star Colin Farrell has spoken movingly about how raising special needs son forced HIM to grow up

Colin Farrell has revealed another side to his character: devoted father to his special needs son.

Then, while on holiday in Italy, Dr Angelman saw a work painted in around 1520 by the Renaissance artist Giovanni Francesco Caroto, showing a laughing boy with a puppet that seemed to characterise the symptoms he had observed and he was reminded of his patients. Farrell got back on track after his stint in rehab with acclaimed roles in films such as In Bruges, The Batman and, most recently, The Banshees Of Inisherin (pictuired), for which he received a Golden Globe and a Best Actor Oscar nomination While blog posts from around the time Kim was pregnant suggested that relations between her and the actor were acrimonious – she claimed he had not been taking good care of her and he would not be present at the birth – they are now clearly united in their love for their son.

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