Saltburn star Barry Keoghan ‘sickened’ and ‘furious’ with online comments about son [Video]

Saltburn star Barry Keoghan has said that claims on social media that he is an “absent father” makes him furious and “sickens” him. Speaking on The Louis Theroux podcast, the actor – who is set to star in Peaky Blinders – opened up about claims that he doesn’t see his young son, Brando. 

Speaking about his childhood, where he grew up in foster care following the death of his mother who died after a drug addiction struggle, he said: “If I didn’t have tough skin or the strength to have, I wouldn’t be sitting here. Of course, (my childhood is) going to affect me being a father when I had no blueprint to take from.

“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 …