Hugh Grant is getting candid about parenthood.
The 62-year-old actor has admitted that he became a father too late in life.
Speaking on the SmartLess podcast, the actor was asked how many children he has, to which he jokingly replied, “We think it’s five.”
“I had them much too old in life,” he admitted. “You know I started when I was 52.”
High Grant shares three children – Blue (6) Lulu (8), and son John Mungo (12) – with his 41-year-old wife Anna Elisabet Eberstein. The pair married in 2018.
He also has a daughter Tabitha Xiao Xi (13) and son Felix Chang Hong (11), whom he shares with ex-partner Tinglan Hong.
The Love Actually actor joked that he needed a “long stint in a sanatorium or an abbey” due to becoming a father to five later in life.
He continued: “I often look at the abbey Maria lives in in The Sound of Music and wish I lived there.”
However, the actor said becoming a father gave him softened him as he got older.
“I think I was a dried-up, middle-aged, golf-addicted Englishman,” he said. “Then I had children and suddenly I had heart and I had more layers, or something.”
Hugh Grant is currently starring in Hereticwhich is out in cinemas now.
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