Barry Keoghan has hit back against online trolls who are using his son as “ammunition” against him online.
The actor shares his son, Brando with his former partner, Alyson Kierans.
The pair met in 2021, while Alyson gave birth to Brando a year later.
Speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast, Barry opened up about his his difficult childhood, which saw him grow up in foster care and his mother die after struggling with drug addiction.
“If I didn’t have tough skin or the strength to have, I wouldn’t be sitting here,” he admitted.
“Of course, (my childhood is) going to affect me being a father when I had no blueprint to take from.”
Continuing on he said: “People just read that (as) laziness and go, ‘Oh, that’s no excuse to be an absent father.’ I’m not an absent father.
“But it’s just, again, people love to use my son as ammunition or whatever.
“And it kind of leads me to stop, the more attention I’ve got lately and the more in the public I’ve become, the less I’ve posted about my child, because I don’t think it’s fair to put my child online.”
Barry went on to say that since he’s refrained from sharing his son on social media, people have made up a narrative about how he’s a “deadbeat” dad.
“Just the audacity of some people, man. It sickens me, makes me furious,” he added.
“I’m just trying to make a living, trying to get a good body of work and create safety for my child.”
