Pierce Brosnan has opened up about losing both his wife Cassandra Harris, and daughter Charlotte, to ovarian cancer.
The 62-year-old was married to Cassandra for 11 years before she sadly passed away in 1991, and the pair were parents to their son Sean (33) and Cassandra’s two children from a previous relationship, Charlotte and Christopher (44).
After losing Cassandra due to ovarian cancer in 1991, Pierce lost Charlotte to the same disease in 2013.
“I don’t look at the cup as half full, believe me,” the Irish actor told Esquire. “The dark, melancholy Irish black dog sits beside me from time to time.”
Devastating: Pierce lost his daughter Charlotte to ovarian cancer in 2013 | WENN.com
Meanwhile, Pierce previously revealed that his faith helped him “survive the pain” of losing two women so dear to him.
“That’s all you have left when your heart is just a dark hole at four in the morning and you have the weight of the world on your shoulders. No one can escape life’s pain. That’s life,” he said.
In 2001, Pierce married his current wife Keely Shaye Smith, who is a former journalist, with whom he has two children, Dylan, 20, and Paris, 16.
The James Bond star also opened up about his challenging upbringing, as the actor’s father Tom left the family shortly after he was born, and his mother Mary fled to London for work.
Pierce’s parents absence left him virtually orphaned as a child, as he lived with relatives and later in a boarding house where he had a “metal bed with a curtain around it.”
New love: Pierce married Keely Shaye Smith in 2001 | VIPIRELAND.COM
Although Pierce doesn’t have a relationship with his father, he did meet him once (and for the first time) in 1984, while filming Remington Steele in Ireland, and admitted that he would have liked to have known him.
“My fatherly instincts are purely my own. They relate back to no one, because there was no one.
“I only met Tom the once, I had a Sunday afternoon with him. A story about this and that, had a few pints of Guinness, and we said goodbye. I would have loved to have known him. He was a good whistler and he had a good walk…. That’s as much as I know about him,” he explained.
