Barry Keoghan on Jan. 7, 2024.Photo:MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty
MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty
Barry Keoghanis sharing some memories of his late mother, Debbie.
“When I’m isolated? Obviously, my mother," Keoghan said, when asked what he thinks about when he feels alone. “My mother, always. She’s many years passed now, but I always think about her anyway. It’s always just in and around achievements that it’s really prominent—’cause you’d like to celebrate that wit’ ’er, y’know?”
Keoghan’s mother struggled with addiction and died of a heroin overdose when he was 12, asThe Irish Postreported in 2019. The actor then lived in 13 different foster homes before he and his brother Eric moved in with their grandmother. He toldGQthat Debbie did know he enjoyed performing and took to calling him “little Timmy” as a nickname.
“I don’t know why,” he shared. “She’d be like, ‘Where’s my little Timmy?’ I’d love to make her laugh, and just dance for her.”
Barry Keoghan in GQ.Jason Nocito/GQ
Jason Nocito/GQ
“She was in the hospital,” he added. The article notes Debbie “wasn’t really in his life” before she died. “She was battlin’ a lot of stuff.”
Elsewhere in the article, Keoghan recalled living in the foster care system before his grandmother, aunt and his cousin moved in together after his mother’s death. Keoghan told the outlet he has resolved to buy them their own home.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
Keoghan also shared with the outlet that he does not feel his story is unique among those who grow up in Dublin.
“Dublin 1, we call it—the postcode is 1. It’s proper inner city. It’s the heart, man,” he said. “And y’know, every inner city has its problems and faces its battles. Everyone’s kind of going through the same stuff there.”
source: people.com
