‘Saltburn’ Star Barry Keoghan Says Rumors He’s ‘A Deadbeat Dad’ Make Him ‘Furious’

Actor Barry Keoghan is fed up with accusations that he is a “deadbeat dad.”

Keoghan, 32, is the father of his two-year-old son, Brando, whom he shares with ex-Alyson Sandro. He opened up about rumors about his parenting skills during a September interview on The Louis Theroux Podcast.

“There’s a lot online. If I didn’t have tough skin or strength, I wouldn’t be sitting here,” the Saltburn star said. “Of course [his 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,” he continued. “And it kind of leads me to stop the more attention I’ve [gotten] lately and the more in the public I’ve become, the less I’ve posted about my child because I don’t think it’s fair to put my child online.”

Keoghan said these choices prompt people to “draw a narrative and go, ‘Absent father, s–, deadbeat dad’ and more disgusting things I wouldn’t even repeat. Just the audacity of some people, man. It sickens me, makes me furious.”

Keoghan and Sandro met in 2021 and welcomed Brando in 2022. The ex-couple split in 2023, and Keoghan has since moved on with popstar Sabrina Carpenter.

In January, Keoghan discussed his battle with necrotizing fasciitis, a bacterial infection that devours the skin, muscles, nerves, fat and blood vessels surrounding an infected wound.

Keoghan is currently dating pop star Sabrina Carpenter.

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