Patrick Stewart’s son Daniel Stewart honored his father with a single image and no words. The photo, posted to X, shows Daniel giving his dad a piggyback ride onstage, and it appears to date back to 2001, when the two co-starred in“Johnson Over Jordan”at Leeds Playhouse. Stewart died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles at 86 after a brief battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
The tribute carries extra weight because of what Stewart said about fatherhood in 2023. In an interview with the Irish Independent, the actor admitted his relationship with his children was“practically non-existent”and that he“always put acting work first.”He added,“There’s not a day that goes by that I’m not pained by the memory of my children.”Stewart shared Daniel and daughter Sophia with ex-wife Sheila Falconer, to whom he was married from 1966 to 1990. He is also survived by his wife, Sunny Ozell.
A captionless photo of a father and son onstage together might be the most honest tribute of the week. It doesn’t argue with the complicated parts of Stewart’s legacy. It just picks the memory worth keeping. What’s the one photo of you and a parent you’d post with no caption?
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