Rob Delaney has opened up on his love of the NHS, praising the incredible care his son Henry received, before his tragic death in to cancer in 2018.
The comedian, 47, is from Massachusetts but now lives in north London with his wife Leah and their three sons, becoming a UK citizen this year.
Expressing his love for living in London, Rob admitted he didn’t see himself ever moving back to Los Angeles, citing America’s staggeringly expensive healthcare and huge number of guns.
Speaking on the latest episode of Table Manners with Jessie & Lennie Ware, he said: ‘I don’t know what would bring me [back to LA]. My kids are ultra plugged in here.
‘The older two have totally grown up here, the youngest one was born here and they don’t want to leave and now they are old enough where we have to factor in how they feel and what they care about.’
Rob Delaney has opened up on his love of the NHS, praising the incredible care his son Henry received, before his tragic death in to cancer in 2018 (pictured)
The comedian, 47, is from Massachusetts but now lives in north London with his wife Leah and their three sons, becoming a UK citizen this year
Expressing his love for living in London, Rob admitted he didn’t see himself ever moving back to Los Angeles, citing America’s staggeringly expensive healthcare and huge number of guns on the latest episode of Table Manners with Jessie & Lennie Ware (pictured)
Asked what he liked most about living in London, he said: ‘Love people, made wonderful friends.
‘I love the NHS, even in its underfunded state it’s better to fall down and break your leg here than it is in America because all you have to worry about is whatever injury or illness you have…
‘There’s no guns here so that is incredible because there sure are guns in America. There’s plenty that’s terrible about the UK to be sure but those are two big ones that mean a lot.’
Rob went on to explain his appreciation for the NHS went beyond the free healthcare, as he talked about how ‘incredible’ the staff and hospitals had been during his son’s cancer battle.
Henry died aged just two-and-a-half on Rob’s 41st birthday in January 2018 after a two-year battle with a brain tumour.
Talking about his son’s final months, Rob said: ‘My son Henry, if anybody who is watching this who doesn’t know, I have a son who died of a brain tumour when he was two in 2018.
‘He lived for seven months at GOSH and for seven months at the Whittington Hospital in north London and both of those places where just magnificent and the care that we received the, the nurses and the doctors and everything was just incredible. Very dear to my heart the NHS.’
It comes after Rob admitted he and his wife had been unable to leave London because of all their memories in the city with Henry, and revealed he wanted to buy their former home where Henry died.
Rob went on to explain his appreciation for the NHS went beyond the free healthcare, as he talked about how ‘incredible’ the staff and hospitals had been during his son’s cancer battle
Henry died aged just two-and-a-half on Rob’s 41st birthday in January 2018 after a two-year battle with a brain tumour
In a candid and emotional interview with Desert Island Discs in July, the Deadpool star said he would like to spend his own last moments in the living room where he said goodbye to his child, and then welcomed his fourth son later that year.
He said: ‘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.’
And speaking about the importance of the city, he said he and Leah couldn’t move ‘for so many reasons… one of which is I like to go put my hands on the slide at the playground that Henry slid down.
‘I like to see [the] nurses, periodically bump into them, that took care of him. So London is very important to me and London took very good care of him.’
Rob also opened up to host Lauren Laverne about Henry’s last months and how his other two boys had dealt with it.
He recalled: ‘He did have a good death. 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.
It comes after Rob admitted he and his wife had been unable to leave London because of all their memories in the city with Henry, and revealed he wanted to buy their former home where Henry died (Rob and Leah pictured in 2018)
‘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.
‘I just hate thinking about them not having him. I really hate it.
‘They talk about him all the time and they love him, and they smile when they talk about him and they love to look at pictures of him and he is very much part of our lives.’
Rob added that he still speaks to his ‘funny and clever’ son, admitting: ‘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.’
