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Ryan Reynolds Recalls His Late Father’s Parkinson’s Induced Hallucinations

Ryan Reynolds is opening up to People magazine about his late father James Chester Reynolds’ battle with Parkinson’s disease.The actor was 22 when his dad was first diagnosed, and James lived with the disease for close to 20 years. He passed away in 2015 at 74.Ryan explained they had a complicated relationship, “I have to preface this with the fact that my father was a man who does not share his feelings. He was a boxer, a cop, a hard-ass. I can’t even recall ever really having a proper conversation with my father.”Reynolds went on, “He was a present father, never missed a football game, but he just didn’t have the capacity to feel, or at least share, the full spectrum of human emotion a bit. And pride was just so ingrained in him that it dictated almost everything that he did.”After the diagnosis, Reynolds recalled a “ton of denial, a ton of hiding.”Making matters worse, James began suffering from hallucinations and delusions about 10 years later.Ryan recalled thinking at the time, “My dad’s losing his mind,” explaining, “My father was really slipping down a rabbit hole where he was struggling to differentiate between reality and fiction. And subsequently, everyone else in his life was losing the bedrock faith and trust that they had on his point of view.”

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