Ryan Reynolds says Parkinson’s most unexpected symptoms made him think his dad was ‘losing his mind’

Ryan Reynolds tells Fox News Digital it’s been ‘truly an experience of a lifetime’ collaborating with this Hollywood actor. When Ryan Reynolds’ father, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease nearly 30 years ago, began having delusions, the actor didn’t know what to think. "It really destabilized my relationship with him because I didn’t really know what was happening," the 47-year-old admitted to People magazine recently.

He added, "At the time I just thought, ‘My dad’s losing his mind.’ My father was really slipping down a rabbit hole where he was struggling to differentiate between reality and fiction. And subsequently everyone else in his life was losing the bedrock faith and trust that they had on his point of view.

There would be conspiratorial webs that he would spin about ‘this is happening’ and that ‘these people might be after me’ or ‘this person is out to get me.’ And just stuff that was such a wild departure from the man that I grew up with and knew." Delusions and hallucinations are not an uncommon symptom of the disease, which affects around 20% to 40% of patients, according to the Parkinson’s Foundation.

RYAN REYNOLDS PRAISES MICHAEL J. FOX FOR HELPING HIS LATE FATHER WITH PARKINSON'S ‘FEEL LESS ALONE’ When Ryan Reynolds’ father, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease nearly 30 years ago, began having delusions, the actor didn’t know what to think. (E.

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