The Rock sheds a tear as Rob Delaney talks about the tragic loss of his son in 2018 / Dwayne Johnson

actually, I mean Rob, it's a really good idea, I thought it was wonderful. I heard about using an app, people come to my house and do things that I thought might not be for me, but they are beautiful with those kids and I love it, no. Sweet, Rob, we want to talk about your new book, part of it that works, so it's a memoir, but it's not just your story you're telling, it's also the story of your son Henry, who passed away in

2018

. Tell us. a little bit about how you would describe him when you think back, describe my Henry, yeah well he was a very sweet, mischievous and funny boy, he was the third one, we had three boys in a row, you know, two years between them, sometimes not at all and um heh heh.

I immediately felt like he would have to be very magnetic and adorable and attractive because his house was a zoo, you know, and so he was very charming and we were all gravitating toward him and he was gorgeous and then he had surgery. once they found the brain tumor and that disabled him quite physically, but the tumor was close to the brain stem, so his frontal lobe was not affected, so he was still very funny, mischievous and funny, so it was a True pleasure. to spend time with him he was diagnosed when he was very little he was he was one when he was diagnosed yeah right yeah the symptoms appeared right before he turned one and then he was diagnosed right after he turned one and then he died um a bit. before he had turned three, yeah, and then you know this book that you've written, you've told your story going through that experience with him and then, and then, the kind of way of losing him, but also his memory, I mean you.

I know, yeah, you guys talk about the idea of ​​keeping someone's memory alive by sharing their story, does it feel like you're doing that? Oh, certainly, the funny thing is that I started the book thinking I wanted to write something very angry that would hurt people. and will share some of the pain my family feels, so I really started like you. Here comes this book for you motherfuckers who don't know what my family has been through, but the fact is our love for him and how wonderful. boy it just took over and something happened in the book it's actually about love uh despite my best efforts to make it into an angry tome it's actually a lot of love that takes advantage of the title you know it's from that wonderful Giuliana Hartfield, so yeah. a heart that hurts is a heart that works yes, that has been alive, yes, so that is a Manifesto of mine now a heart that hurts is a heart that works because if you are born on planet Earth you are going to experience pain, there is no There a way around it and you know our family got more than we could have anticipated before and it's been terrible and painful you know, but there's also been a lot of love woven into this you talk about it you know what's the best way to do it. support someone who has lost a loved one.

I mean, what would you say is the most important thing you've been able to learn? Well, now I know that if someone loses someone close to them, I'm not going to think: is there something? I can do it, I'm just going to go to their house, duplicate one of their keys when they're sleeping and then go in and do the laundry, you know, make them go out and take a walk while I take care of one of their kids. or whatever, it's actually more about actions than words, that's right and I mean, I know having friends who support you meant a lot to you during that time and in fact, Dwayne reached out to you, I think because you have worked together, well, we.

I hadn't at this point, but yeah, he sent me a lovely tweet after Henry died, which is enough to know, and that was really sweet and made me feel great and then a couple of years later, yeah, I did Hobbs and Shaw, so that was the time, but it's hard, isn't it? Because you know how to do that. People often don't know what to say and, in fact, may feel a little intimidated to notice anything. The moment passes because it is very difficult to say. something in words I, you know, we have babies at home, I have girls that are 21, six and four, and you know that story, hearing that shook us in our house, uh, man, well, Dwayne did a good role model. you know, he said Henry's name, I remember it and um, he just said something sweet and he just did it, you know, instead of I should, you know, it made me feel good, that's what I should worry about getting it right, just try do it.

Yeah, it's also very inspiring because obviously you know that in the book you're talking about while Henry was sick you were also working on the comedy catastrophe. I mean, how could you move on from a tragedy like that to even be able to write and I came back, so I mean what I discovered was that pain and work are compatible. I agreed to do a fourth series of Catastrophe when we found out that Henry's cancer had returned and that he would die. I wasn't even sure if he was going to do one. but I knew we'd still have to be able to pay the rent and buy cereal and shoes, so I thought, yeah, I'll do that at some point and then when I started writing the fourth series I didn't even care if it was good.

I just wanted money and then I started writing it and I really started having fun very quickly and I discovered that work and pain are compatible so if I had to stop and cry or throw up I would do it but then I would come back and start writing and after After a while I started laughing, you know? So it wasn't like that. I don't laugh anymore. I'm not having fun anymore. There's something new that my family feels like we didn't have before and it's hard and it hurts but we still laugh, we still get angry, we still get silly, we still have all the other emotions, yeah amazing, thank you so much Rob for sharing that and A Working Heart comes out this Thursday and 100% of the profits from the book will go out. be donated to children's hospices.

I mean, that's amazing, right? It's pretty amazing, right? But this guy is pretty amazing. Rob will also be visiting Edinburgh, Manchester and London for his book tour and tickets for that are now available. Yes, in fact, we have also received many lovely comments from Dorothy saying that Rob's story about her son is the most powerful, brave and moving story of grief, but so full of love and absolutely beautiful. Let me quickly tell you that it is not brave. Just what other bereaved parents did for me and my wife, so I thought, look, if I can write a book that reaches someone in a Yorkshire suburb who can't make it to a bereaved parents' meeting in London, then I have to do it. , so it's just here you go, use it I hope it helps you you did it wrong thank you very much that's all we have time for tonight many thanks to Dwayne Noah and Rob see you soon thanks foreign guys