American actor has revealed that he would like to purchase the home his in for a heartbreaking reason.
The star, 47, appeared on Desert Island Discs this week, where he admitted he has told the current landlord of the house, he would be interested in purchasing the home if they ever wanted to sell it.
Rob, who lost his to brain in 2018, said the reason why he is so eager to purchase the home is so that, like his little boy, he can .
He told Laverne, ‘We don’t live there any more, but when we moved out, I asked the landlord, “Listen, if you are ever going to sell this place, will you let me know first because I would like to buy it”, so when I’m 81, I can crawl in here and die, in the same room that my son died in, that my other son was born in.’
Rob, who shares three other sons with his wife Leah, also opened up about Henry’s final months, stating the young boy ‘did have a good death’ despite his devastating illness.
‘His final months – we had four-and-a-half of them where we knew he was going to die – his brothers were just so into him.’
‘They all loved each other so much… I watched a four and a six-year-old hold their brother’s dead body, I watched them take unbelievable care of him and learn difficult things because he required really intense things to take care of him.’
He continued to say he hates thinking about his living children not having their younger brother with them but enjoys how they ‘talk about him all the time’ and smile when doing so. He added: ‘He is very much part of our lives.’
Rob then told listeners that he still speaks to his young son, Henry, despite his passing over six years ago.
‘I don’t know what words to use, don’t care. I talk to him. I don’t know if he hears me. It doesn’t matter. He is my son, I am his dad and I love him,’ he stated.
Henry died in London in January 2018 after starting chemotherapy at just 15 months old.
Alarm bells first started ringing for Rob and Leah in 2016 when their little boy began vomiting persistently and losing weight, prompting the couple to take him to the hospital, where he underwent tests and was diagnosed with a brain tumour.
While he had surgery to remove the tumour that year and appeared to be on the mend, the family were devastatingly told Henry’s tumour had returned in 2017, prompting a year of treatments before he passed.
As the couple struggled with the death of Henry, they welcomed their fourth son just months later in August. Rob told that while the couple did want to have a fourth child together, they had ‘mixed feelings’ about their youngest son’s birth.
‘Having another child in no way, shape or form eases the grief of Henry dying. But also having Henry dying doesn’t make our new son any less magical,’ he said.
