Robert De Niro is a brand new dad, for the seventh time, at age 79.
The Oscar-winning actor revealed that he’s welcomed a brand new youngster into the world in a Monday interview with ET Canada, selling his appropriately named movie About My Father.
When De Niro was requested within the interview about being a dad to 6 youngsters, he piped up with a correction.
“Seven, really,” he stated. “I simply had a child.”
It’s unclear who the mom of his seventh youngster is, although quite a few shops have speculated that it may very well be Tiffany Chen, an expert martial artist. The pair has by no means publicly confirmed a relationship after first sparking relationship rumours in 2021.
The Godfather actor shared a few of his experiences with fatherhood, saying he doesn’t assume he’s a “cool dad.”
“You recognize, my youngsters disagree with me at instances, they usually’re respectful. My daughter, she’s 11, she offers me grief generally and I argue along with her,” he stated. “I like her, however .”
De Niro added that there’ll probably be extra adolescent angst in his life with child quantity seven.
“And my youngest now, that’ll be extra to come back. However, that’s what it’s,” he stated.
The Taxi Driver star has been married twice and can be a grandfather. He stated he prefers a loving strategy to parenting, however acknowledged he needs to be “stern about stuff” when crucial.
“I imply, there’s no approach round it with youngsters. I don’t prefer to have to put down the regulation and stuff like that. However you simply haven’t any alternative,” he shared. “And any father or mother, I feel, would say the identical factor. You at all times need to do the appropriate factor by the youngsters and provides them the advantage of the doubt, however generally you may’t.”
In a separate interview with Entry Hollywood Tuesday, De Niro famous that parenting could be “scary,” however “you do your finest.”
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“Typically, I don’t assume individuals actually know what being father is,” he stated. “Properly, you will have a duty however look, it’s a thriller, it’s numerous pleasure.”
De Niro’s oldest youngster is 51 years previous — his adopted daughter Drena, whom he shares with ex-wife Diahnne Abbott. De Niro and Abbott had been married from 1976 to 1988, and in addition share a son collectively, 46-year-old Raphael.
In 1995, De Niro welcomed twin sons, Aaron and Julian, now each 27, with long-time girlfriend Toukie Smith.
The 2-time Oscar winner was additionally married to Grace Hightower earlier than they cut up in 2018. Collectively, they co-parent son Elliot, 25, and daughter Helen, 11.
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