Nick Frost says he owes his parents 'nothing' and would 'probably tell them off'

Nick Frost has suggested he was "abandoned" by his parents from a young age and doesn't feel he has anything to thank them for - in fact, he would probably tell them off

Shaun of the Dead star Nick Frost has candidly claimed that he feels no sense of debt to his parents, revealing a sense of emotional neglect from an early age.

The 52-year-old actor expressed his stance on his upbringing in a recent interview. When asked what he owed his parents, he said: "Nothing. I feel as if I did it all myself as I felt fairly abandoned from a young age. So in terms of thanking them - no, not really. I’d probably tell them off, if I’m honest."

Despite referring to his late mother as a "terrible alcoholic" Nick has reached a point where he can reconcile with her actions, saying to The Guardian: "She was a terrible alcoholic and I spent a lot of my time kind of hating her but, in the past five years, I realised why she did what she did and I could forgive."

The 'Shaun of the Dead' star also spoke about how his dad's passing due to lung cancer has affected his outlook on life, telling the Daily Telegraph, "My mum was an alcoholic so my dad had spent a lot of his life looking after her. When my mum died my dad became free and it was like I had my best mate back and was happy again but five years later he got lung cancer. And nine months after that he was gone."

Moreover, Frost shared insights into his journey towards self-care: "Five years ago, I started looking after myself a bit more, emotionally and spiritually, and it’s paid dividends. I was angry with my mum for taking up so much of his life. And in between them, I lost my brother and sister and then my other brother died just after my dad died. It became just lots of admin. I didn’t deal with the grief at all. I never thought about how it was affecting me."

In 2023, his close friend and frequent collaborator Simon Pegg opened up about hiding his alcoholism while on the set of Mission: Impossible. Speaking on BBC4’s Desert Island Discs, Hot Fuzz icon Simon said to host Lauren Laverne: "You become very sneaky when you have something like that in your life.

"You learn how to do it without anyone noticing because it takes over. It wants to sustain itself and it will do everything it can to not be stopped…But eventually it just gets to a point when it can’t be hidden, and that’s when, thankfully, I was able to pull out of the dive.”

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