Gerry Ryan’s eldest son has opened up about how he coped with losing his father, Gerry Ryan.
The tv and radio presenter passed away eight years ago this week.
His son, Rex revealed that he remembers his dad ‘fondly’.
“Just a powerful, brilliant man for me personally. I was very close with him and we had some great times. I am profoundly influenced by him,” he told The Ryan Tubridy Show.
The 28-year-old admitted that his father’s passing seems like a ‘different life’.
“You know it’s a very strange thing me talking about my dad because I talk about a father really from my last memories when I was 21 and I’m an extremely different person now so it’s almost like a different me, a different Rex knew and Gerard at that time. When I look back on it but it does seem like a different life in a strange way.”
He added: “It seems quite distant now. It seems a long time ago and that gives it a sort of a melancholy I suppose when I look back on it. It does truly feel like a different life in a strange way.”
Rex, who is an actor added that though it was difficult, he is living a very happy life.
He is currently performing a one-man-play called Pilgrim at Smock Alley until May 5th.
“Life is good,” he said.
“I enjoy work at lot, I live with someone who I love, and I think I am just profoundly aware of our mortality, maybe it’s with dad dying but I know I could leave today and get smashed by a bus.”
“I’m extremely lucky, and we’re all lucky probably to be alive. I enjoy this, now, talking, I’ll enjoy going on stage tonight, and in terms of dad, he lived an incredible life, and I have no resentment against any sort of God or thing that might have taken him too early.”
