Actress Calista Flockhart had simply turn out to be a brand new mother or father to son LIam when she met veteran actor Harrison Ford on the 2002 Golden Globe Awards. The recipient of a lifetime achievement award that evening, Harrison was additionally a seasoned mother or father – having 4 youngsters of his personal from two separate marriages.
“After I met Liam, he was simply starting to stroll, and it simply didn’t matter to me. I had 4 youngsters already, and I can’t rely that effectively, so it didn’t make that a lot distinction,” Harrison informed The New York Occasions of Flockhart being a mom. “Didn’t scare me off,” he acknowledged. The couple has been married for almost 14 years.
“I feel he was a extremely good father in quite a lot of methods, and perhaps as a result of he was on Spherical 2 or Spherical 3, so he had matured and grown up and, I feel, advanced into being a very good father,” Flockhart admitted of her husband to the publication.
HARRISON FORD ADMITS HE COULD HAVE BEEN A ‘BETTER PARENT’ AS HE CELEBRATES YOUNGEST SON’S GRADUATION
Calista Flockhart is actor Harrison Ford’s third spouse. The couple share an adopted son, Liam, collectively. (Lionel Hahn/Getty Photos)
“He’s such a very good father to his youngsters now. I really like his youngsters, my stepkids,” the “Ally McBeal” actress famous.
Harrison’s first “spherical” of children got here with ex-wife Mary Marquardt, whom he was married to from 1964 by means of 1979. They’ve sons, Benjamin and Willard. Along with his second spouse, Melissa Mathison, Ford has a son Malcolm and daughter Georgia. They have been married from 1983 to 2004, however formally cut up in 2000, earlier than Ford met Flockhart. “Spherical 3” for the “Indiana Jones” star was adopting Flockhart’s son, whom she initially adopted in 2001. He lately graduated from school.
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Flockhart says husband Ford “advanced into being a very good father” as he had extra youngsters. (Hannes P Albert/image alliance through Getty Photos)
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Harrison, for his half, has been clear about his struggles as a mother or father. In a 2023 interview with Esquire, Ford stated, “I can inform you this: If I’d been much less profitable, I’d in all probability be a greater mother or father.”
In a 2010 interview with the Unbiased, the identical 12 months Harrison married Flockhart, the “Star Wars” actor shared comparable sentiments to Flockhart’s latest evaluation. “I’ve obtained 5 youngsters in whole, so it is not my first rodeo. Yeah, clearly I am getting older however I do not relate to it very a lot. It does not curiosity me as one thing to dwell on,” he defined.
“I’ve a nine-year-old child at dwelling. I really feel like the daddy of a nine-year-old child. My older youngsters have taught me loads about parenting. My first little one was born after I was 25. I reckon I am somewhat higher at it now.”
Ford adopted Flockhart’s adopted son Liam. (Eric Charbonneau/Getty Photos for Apple TV+)
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Ford was 60 when he met Flockhart, 22 years her senior. He celebrated his 81st birthday in July.
