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Taron Egertonis opening up about the “tough experience” of his mom’s cancer diagnosis.
TheTetrisactor, 33,dropped out of the West End playCocklast April, less than a month after initial performances began, due to “personal reasons.” He later revealed toThe New York Timesthat “toward the end of” 2021, a “close family member was diagnosed with cancer, and I dropped out of a film to come home and be with that person.”
He added in that Julyinterview, “I thought that, with the play, I was ready to go back to work, but I wasn’t. I had to leave, and it was sad, and absolutely one of the hardest decisions I’ve had to make.”
Now, in a recent conversationwithThe Telegraph, Egerton revealed that it was his mom who “had cancer.”
“She’s fine now,” said theKingsmanactor. “But it felt like the end of my youth. You confront something that means you have to dispel any of the illusions and stories you tell yourself about anything fairy tale to do with life — you lose a lot of the lightness. It was just a tough experience.”
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“My father was in my life, [but] not day-to-day in the home environment. So I guess I’m probably more what you would describe as feminine masculine than masculine masculine. But I like that about myself,” he said. “I like that I’m hopefully quite empathetic and in touch with my feelings — probably a bit too in touch with them. But I had a great mum, she worked really bloody hard for me. And now we look after each other.”
He added, “I was very loved. We’re very close. There’s something about ‘single parent/only child,’ I think, that really forges a special kind of bond.”
On his birthday in November, Egertonshared a photoof himself with his mom on Instagram and wrote in the caption that the “past year has been one of the most challenging of my life but today we are happy and we are healthy.”
“I am truly one of the luckiest people in the world,” he added.
source: people.com
