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Ryan Reynolds Says Healing After His Dad’s Death Comes 'Through My Relationship with My Own Kids' (Exclusive)


Reynolds, a father of four with his wife Blake Lively, tells PEOPLE that parenting their children has helped heal a complicated relationship with his late father.

The youngest of four, Ryan, 47, is now a dad to his own four children with wife Blake Lively, 36: James, 9, Inez, 7, Betty, 4, and Olin, whom the couple announced they welcomed in Feb. 2023. “[It] always pushed him to do the right thing at the right time, even though he made a massive amount of mistakes, was not a great communicator, blew it, all kinds of stuff." Ryan now says that learning his father’s decline into hallucinations and conspiratorial webs was connected to Parkinson’s has made him want to speak out so that others can seek resources.

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