Sam Claflin Recalls Adjusting to Single Fatherhood Amid Divorce: I Was ‘Outnumbered by 2 Toddlers’
usmagazine.comA massive adjustment. Sam Claflin was going through major life changes — going through a divorce and becoming a single father — when he was cast as rock star Billy Dunne in Daisy Jones & the Six.“I’d been through quite a lot personally at the time,” the Hunger Games actor, 36, told Variety in a feature story published on Wednesday, February 22. “I was in a really bad place.”The England native announced in August 2019 that he and then-wife Laura Haddock split after six years of marriage.
They share two children, son Pip, 7, and Margot, 5. “Laura and I have decided to legally separate. We will move forward with nothing but love, friendship and a deep respect for one another, whilst we continue to raise our family together,” Claflin wrote in a statement via Instagram Story at the time.Now, more than three years later, the Me Before You star reflected on the early days as a divorcée and a single dad.
He explained to Variety: “I think I needed to work out a few kinks in my own life, to figure out who I was as this dad on my own in a house outnumbered by two toddlers.
Then this job coming out the back of that was just the most fun, joyous fresh start.”Prime Video’s Daisy Jones & the Six follows a 1970s rock band’s rise to fame and sudden breakup.
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