Rob Delaney Shares Story of Love and Grief in New Book

American 47-year-old actor and comedian Rob Delaney turned the horror of losing his two-year-old son Henry into a biography. In 2018, the actor faced a nightmare; his son’s death occurred due to brain cancer. The actor’s new book is aimed not at conveying sentimentality, a thread of life from a clichéd thread that often takes place in communication but to show the harsh truth of reality.

In a personal interview with “Today,” Delaney explained the enthusiasm behind the idea of writing the book: “It’s a nightmare.” The actor mentioned that it is one of those phenomena that cannot be sweetened. The actor’s work is not an immersion in the quagmire of sorrow, but an opportunity to show the significance of the loss of a child’s love.

The actor’s openness about grief is expressed not only in the work but also in direct interviews. The actor often talks about Henry, sharing interesting annotations regarding his son’s unusual experience and appearance. Having a tracheostomy, Henry was forced to learn sign language. Remembering him, Delaney calls his son “funny and smart and charming and gorgeous and flirty and silly and brilliant.” This continued narrative with the memory of Henry sews the small child’s thread directly into the daily routines of the family.

It is worth noting that the actor has recently started a series of work in both TV shows and films. He previously played a cheerful, attractive, and kind character in “Deadpool.” His next project, the film “Bad Monkey,” is quite different from the previous one. PMC reports that Delaney will play a negative character this time – a murderer of his girlfriend, who then leads the police to the killer.

It is clear that the actor has some internal struggle with contrasting emotions, so his work oscillates in rather diverse psychological phases. It is obvious that the two roles are incompatible, and Delaney’s lived experiences will not eliminate them. Perhaps, a high level of professionalism and charisma will help the artist to show the feelings naturally, and the audience will forget the difference between the two films. It may be that Delaney’s extreme emotional conditions make him unable to handle such an experience, and the difference between the characters will remain the main points in the comparison. The actor’s work is only becoming more popular; he opened an official account on Instagram that already has millions of followers. If you take into account his posts, broadcast his grieve about the death of his son, over his life, one can conclude that he decided to move on.

Talking about it and living in the home Henry died seems like an implementation of a previously available decision. People are surrounded by unmentioned speech against death. He breaks the unspoken rule by establishing a grieve conversation, not removing his son, the most inherent part, from his life. It is another step in development after first school classes, job, first kiss, breakup or marriage.

He intents to show grief is nothing to throw into a void; it is an event present in every family. It makes people closer to each other. You can lower the curtain and devote latter half of your life to the memory of your irretrievable loss or remain part of the society and develop your worldview by integrating many experiences into life. But the latter option is a better choice and a road to becoming better, a milestone on the way of raising children, new experiences, and great opportunity to live again. All people face dark times when the curtain descends, regardless of their own desires, after continues. The actor’s example makes it possible to navigate by them through a similar event, as his two works of big diversity have become a part of life. I cannot understand the pain for now, but is it essential in the future, and the actor will definitely help the audience accommodate this feeling into their lives.