Ruth Negga has opened up about her father’s tragic death.
The actress was born in Ethiopia and is the daughter of an Ethiopian doctor and an Irish woman, then later moved to Ireland when she was 4 years old.
In Ireland she waited for her father to join the family – but unfortunately he never came.
Father: Ruth’s dad passed away in Ethiopia when she was 7 years old living in Ireland | VIPIRELAND.COM
The Limerick native learned of her father’s death through a letter when she was 7 years old and admitted that she struggled to return to Ethiopia after his passing.
“He died in a car accident in Addis. It took a while [to go back to Ethiopia],” she told Ryan Tubridy on RTE’s The Late Late Show.
“I don’t know why, I think it’s because I was growing up and my mom was a single mom raising me.
“We went back eventually – I think I was 18. I met my family [and] it was very moving. We went to my father’s grave.”
Back home: The Limerick native admitted that she didn’t go back to Ethiopia for a decade after his death | VIPIRELAND.COM
When asked by the RTE host was it a difficult journey to make, the actress explained that it was but a necessary one.
“Very much so. It was a necessary one, I think you can’t ignore our history. I think it’s something that’s important to do in grief and death.
“I think people in a strange way get embarrassed by death. It’s something deeply personal and I think we all have different ways of dealing with it,” she added.
