Barry Keoghan has admitted that comments he has received about his parenting have left him "sickened" and "furious".
The Oscar-nominee shares a two-year-old son, Brando, with his former partner Alyson.
Barry has revealed that he has received "disgusting" comments saying he is an absent father due to the fact he made the decision not to share much of his son online.
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Barry, who has skyrocketed to fame in recent years thanks to his performances in films like Saltburn and the Banshees of Inisherin, said that due to increased attention on his personal life, he doesn't share much about Brando online. However, this has lead to comments from trolls calling him a "deadbeat dad".
Speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast, the Dublin native spoke about how his childhood has affected his parenting.
"If I didn’t have tough skin or the strength to have, I wouldn’t be sitting here. Of course, [my childhood is] going to affect me being a father when I had no blueprint to take from," he said. "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. And it kind of leads me to stop, the more attention I’ve got 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."
He added: "People draw a narrative and go ‘absent father, deadbeat dad’, and more disgusting things I wouldn’t even repeat. Just the audacity of some people, man. It sickens me, makes me furious."
Barry, who grew up in foster care after the passing of his mum, has opened up about how his upbringing has influenced his parenting style in the past. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly earlier this year, he said: "I didn't have a father figure growing up, so even my relationship with my son isn't quite of the normal father-son relationship because I don't have that figure to draw experience from and to base it on.
"Love, you don't need anything to draw from, love is pure, and so I'm not on about that, but I'm on about little stuff like teaching your son this or teaching your daughter that."
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