Colin Farrell's Heart-Wrenching Decision: Sending His 21-Year-Old Disabled Son to Long-Term Care – The Inside Story
In an interview with Candis magazine, the 48-year-old actor revealed that he and James’ mother, Kim Bordenave, have made plans to place their son into a long-term care facility—in fear of what will happen when they are no longer alive.
“Some parents will say, ‘I want to take care of my child myself.’ And I respect that,” Farrel explained. “But my horror would be… What if I have a heart attack tomorrow, and, God forbid, James’s mother, Kim, has a car crash and she’s taken too—and then James is on his own?”
The actor said that he opted to make the decision now, rather than wait for the worst to happen and being unable to decide where his son ends up, and what type of care he receives.
Colin Farrell shared that he made the difficult decision to place his disabled son in long-term care
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“Then he’s a ward of the state and he goes where? We’d have no say in it,” the actor continued.
Farrell and Bordenave, who dated from 2001 to 2003, are now actively searching for a facility that can offer James both stability and a sense of belonging. “We want him to find somewhere where he can have a full and happy life, where he feels connected,” Farrell added.
James was diagnosed with Angelman syndrome at two and a half years old, after initially being misdiagnosed with cerebral palsy.
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“He couldn’t sit up. He wasn’t crawling. I think he was a year and a half when we took him to get really checked out, and he was diagnosed as having cerebral palsy,” the actor recalled.
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