‘I’m still his dad and he’s still my son’: Catastrophe star Rob Delaney shares Father’s Day tribute to his late son Henry, two
- Rob’s son Henry was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2016
- The beloved toddler passed away, aged two, in January 2018
- In December 2018, Rob revealed his wife Leah gave birth to their ‘magical’ fourth son – seven months after son Henry passed away
Rob Delaney paid tribute to his son Henry on Father’s Day, two years on from his heartbreaking death.
The Catastrophe star and writer shared a photo of a newborn Henry sleeping on his lap, telling his Instagram followers: ‘I’m still his dad & he’s still my son.’
Henry passed away in January 2018 aged two, after being diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2016.
Father and son: Actor and writer Rob Delaney paid tribute to his son Henry on Father’s Day, two years on from his heartbreaking death aged two
The sweet photo shows an exhausted looked Rob slumped on the kitchen floor, while his baby boy sleeps peacefully on him.
‘Look at this beautiful boy. He died when he was 2. I’m still his dad & he’s still my son. Henry,’ Rob captioned Sunday’s post.
Rob revealed Henry was diagnosed with his brain tumour in 2016 after suffering persistent vomiting and weight loss, shortly after he turned one.
The toddler underwent surgery to remove a tumour in addition to further treatment, spending a gruelling 15 months in hospital. But his family were told his cancer had returned in the autumn of 2017 before he passed away the following January.
Tribute: The Catastrophe star and writer shared a photo of a newborn Henry sleeping on his lap, telling his Instagram followers: ‘I’m still his dad & he’s still my son’
In December 2018, Rob revealed his wife Leah gave birth to their ‘magical’ fourth son that August – seven months after son Henry passed away.
While he has previously discussed the joy of their new child, he has also admitted he struggles every day with his grief.
In an interview with the Evening Standard last year Rob said: ‘I’m a mess. My child died 14 months ago and I’m basically a bag of wet rubbish. I need a lot of help…
Always remembered: Henry passed away in January 2018 aged two, after being diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2016, shortly after he turned one
‘It has been very hard. It comes in waves. I’ve learned to not control how the waves come. Right now I’m sad a lot.
‘The reason I’m being honest with you and not trying to impress you, and make you think I’m cool or that I’m a tough guy, or maybe working through loss in an inspiring way, is that I have found that if a bereaved parent or bereaved sibling reads this…
‘I want them to know that it’s okay that they feel terrible, sad, confused and so brutally humbled.’
Loss: The toddler underwent surgery to remove a tumour in addition to further treatment, spending a gruelling 15 months in hospital but passed away in early 2018
After the final series of Catastrophe hit screens in 2019, he detailed how he managed to both write and film the series during his son’s battle.
Rob told the Radio Times: ‘Shoots were hard. Sometimes I’d need to take a break and just go cry. Writing them, logistically, was difficult. We rented an office right by Great Ormond Street Hospital so I could duck in and out as needed on series three.’
‘I found incredible sadness and confusion and anger not incompatible with work. I found grief not incompatible with work. I can’t return emails any more, or do basic admin, and my memory is fundamentally damaged…
‘So there are things that I’m much worse at now. Joking around and imagining stories has not suffered. Maybe because it’s almost like a vital sign.’
Devoted dad: Rob wrote the sitcom Catastrophe during his son’s cancer battle pictured with co-star and co-writer Sharon Horgan