Naomi Watts says she will never get over her father's death after Pink Floyd roadie overdosed on heroin: 'The sadness never goes away'
Naomi Watts has spoken candidly about the grief of losing her father at the age of seven.
The actress' father, Peter, who worked as a sound engineer for Pink Floyd, tragically died of an apparent heroin overdose at the age of 31, when Naomi was seven years old.
The King Kong star, 55, shared Marie Claire Australiashe will never get over the death of her famous father.
'The sadness never goes away, except through playing [different roles in movies] you find new ways to understand it,” she said.
“To this day, I wish, as a 55-year-old woman, I had experienced what it was like to have a father to talk to at various points in my life.”
Naomi Watts has said she will never get over her father's death after Pink Floyd roadie overdosed on heroin: 'The sadness never goes away'
“I wish he had been there to pat me on the back when I've had successful moments or complex moments that have bothered me.”
Peter and Naomi's costume designer mother Myfanwy, better known as Miv, divorced when she was four years old.
Naomi 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 about her grief, previously telling how 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 this is a story I know well; at age 52 it is still resolving.”
“It makes you lose a part of yourself… you feel like you're not fully formed in some way,” she added.
The actress' father, Peter, who worked as a sound engineer for Pink Floyd, sadly died at the age of 31 from an apparent heroin overdose, when Naomi was seven years old.
Naomi's mother Miv also previously spoke about the devastating loss to Daily Mail Australia, recalling: 'It has left scars. It was a shock.'
'His death made Naomi incredibly determined. It had a profound effect on her, as well as the entire family,” she said.
'It's a terrible thing that can happen to anyone, especially at that age when she needed her father. We had no idea he was using heroin.”
“To this day, I wish that, as a 55-year-old woman, I had witnessed what it was like to have a father to talk to at various times in my life,” she said.