Naomi Watts has spoken openly about the heartache of losing her father at the age of seven.
The actress's father, Peter, who worked as a sound engineer for Pink Floyd, sadly died of an apparent heroin overdose at the age of 31, when Naomi was seven.
The 55-year-old King Kong star told Marie Claire Australia she will never get over her famous father's death.
“The sadness never goes away, but it does when you play [different roles in movies] “You find new ways to understand it,” she said.
“As a 55-year-old woman, I still wish I had experienced what it was like to have a father to talk to at different times in my life.”
Naomi Watts said she will never get over her father's death after a heroin overdose at the hands of Pink Floyd roadie: 'The grief never goes away'
“I wish he had been there to pat me on the back when I had successful moments or complex moments that worried me.”
Peter and Naomi's mother, costume designer Myfanwy, known as Miv, divorced when she was four years old.
Naomi has previously told how Pink Floyd, who Peter worked for, gave Miv a few thousand pounds after his death to “get things going” but they were still struggling.
It's not the first time she's spoken out about her grief, previously sharing that she's still “struggling” with the tragic loss as an adult many decades later.
Speaking to Vogue Australia in 2021, she said: “Having grown up losing my father at a very young age, I think that's a story I know well; At the ripe old age of 52, it's still sorting itself out.'
“It makes you lose a part of yourself…you feel like you're not fully formed in some ways,” she added.
The actress' father Peter, who worked as a sound engineer for Pink Floyd, sadly died aged 31 from an apparent heroin overdose when Naomi was seven
Naomi's mother Miv also previously spoke to Chron Australia about the devastating loss, recalling: “It left scars. “It was a shock.”
“His death made Naomi incredibly determined.” “It had a profound effect on her and the whole family,” she said.
“It's a terrible thing that can happen to anyone, especially at the age when she needed her father.” “We had no idea he was even using heroin.”
“As a 55-year-old woman, to this day I wish I had experienced what it was like to have a father to talk to at different times in my life,” she said