Eric Roberts is ready to break out his dad jokes.
He and his wife Niamh are preparing to welcome their first child.
Eric tells VIP Magazine in the September issue: “The baby is due January 5th, so it will be an interesting Christmas in the Roberts’ household!”
While they’re excited to become parents, the way Eric found out that he was going to be a dad was chaotic to say the least.
“We were staying in a hotel just outside Dublin, and when we woke up, I could tell there was something wrong with Niamh,” he admits.
“There was something off and she wouldn’t tell me what was going on. So, we went for breakfast and she was still being quiet. I had no idea what was wrong. I thought I did something the night before to annoy her!
“All of a sudden there was this big commotion and some of the waiters started screaming for help as a member of staff was having a seizure or an epileptic episode. I was an SNA so I’d seen it before. I’m no expert but I knew the basic stuff. I was tending to her as there was nobody else around. I glanced over at Niamh and she was visibly upset and I looked over again and she was gone.”
He went on to say: “Eventually the ambulance came and the girl was ok so I went back to the room and said ‘Where did you go, what happened? You missed it all.’ She broke down.
“She was in the bathroom and from behind her back she showed me the pregnancy sticks and I broke down in tears. It was such commotion. It took me about 10 or 15 seconds to process what I was seeing, I was like, ‘Are you pregnant or do you have Covid?!’ It was lovely then, we were very, very happy because we had been trying for a bit so we were over the moon.”
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