Robert De Niro teared up whereas speaking about turning into a father once more on the age of 80.
“It feels nice,” De Niro gushed in a video coinciding along with his look on the quilt of the February/March 2024 challenge of AARP The Journal. “Every part that I’m consumed with or apprehensive about simply goes away once I take a look at her. It’s wondrous.”
De Niro obtained visibly emotional whereas confessing that fatherhood has made his life higher. “When she will get older — who is aware of? However that very candy manner she has of you, taking you in, pondering and watching and observing,” he shared about his 9-month-old daughter, Gia, whom he welcomed with girlfriend Tiffany Chen.
Along with Gia, De Niro additionally shares son Raphael, 46, with ex-wife Diahnne Abbott and is the adoptive father of Abbott’s daughter Drena, 52, from a earlier relationship. In 1995, De Niro and Toukie Smith welcomed twins Julian and Aaron, now 27. He shares son Elliot, 25, and daughter Helen, 11, with ex-wife Grace Hightower.
De Niro began relationship Chen, 46, in 2021. He shocked followers in Could 2023 when he revealed that he was formally a father of seven.
Robert De Niro and Tiffany Chen. Amy Sussman/Getty Photos for IHG Lodges & Resorts)
“I’ve sure consciousness — once you’re older you’ve consciousness of sure issues in life, dynamics, all the pieces, household dynamics,” De Niro informed Hoda Kotb later that month about turning into a dad once more. “You may’t keep away from studying sure issues and how one can cope with these and handle them and this and that, the same old.”
De Niro subsequently informed The Guardian in October 2023 that having a new child was an adjustment, explaining, “With a child it’s totally different [than] with my 11-year-old. My grownup youngsters. My grandchildren. It’s all totally different. Properly, I don’t speak to the grownup youngsters the best way I speak to my child or the best way I converse to my 11-year-old, although she’s fairly good.”
Offscreen love. Along with his prolific appearing profession, Robert De Niro has welcomed six youngsters and adopted yet one more with a number of totally different companions over time. The Raging Bull star wed actress Diahnne Abbott in 1976 after assembly her on the set of his movie Taxi Driver. That very same yr, the twosome welcomed son […]
On the time, De Niro admitted that he wasn’t the one doing many of the heavy lifting when it got here to parenting. “I’m there, I assist my girlfriend. However she does the work. And now we have assist, which is so vital,” he famous. “After all I do. [I am happy with] all of it.”
The actor’s private life has been a scorching subject as he continues to advertise his movie The Killers of the Flower Moon, which was not too long ago nominated for 10 Oscars. Whereas attending the 2024 Golden Globes earlier this month, De Niro discovered himself on the heart of one among host Jo Koy‘s extra awkward jokes.
“Yo, Robert De Niro’s right here,” Koy, 52, stated earlier than responding to a heckler within the crowd. “Yo, I obtained this gig 10 days in the past. You need an ideal monologue? Shut up. You’re kidding me, proper? I wrote a few of these, and so they’re those you’re laughing at.”
Koy went on to poke enjoyable at De Niro’s relationship with Chen, including, “I’m a bit awestruck, this man’s wonderful decade after decade simply kills it each single time. I don’t know the way you do it, man. Your final efficiency has obtained to be your best efficiency ever. How’d you get her pregnant at 80?”
De Niro, nevertheless, didn’t seem fazed by Koy’s humor. He even shared fun with Chen, who was by his aspect on the awards present.
