Christopher Brosnan, son of actor Pierce Brosnan, was seen shopping in Notting Hill, London. The filmmaker has a tumultuous past and remains estranged from his father.
London, Bollywood Fever: Christopher Brosnan, the 51-year-old estranged son of actor Pierce Brosnan, was seen out shopping in London’s Notting Hill on Friday. He was spotted walking along Portobello Road with a bag from Waitrose, the supermarket chain.
The filmmaker, who has previously worked as an assistant director on his father’s films Tomorrow Never Dies and The World Is Not Enough, was dressed warmly despite the summer weather. He wore a red Nike hoodie over a navy top, topped with a khaki gilet, and completed the look with worn Converse shoes. His long dark hair peeked out from beneath a navy blue flat cap worn backwards.
Christopher is the biological son of Pierce’s late first wife, Australian actress Cassandra Harris, and her ex-husband Dermot. Pierce adopted Christopher and his late sister Charlotte after their biological father’s death in 1986, during his marriage to Cassandra. Tragically, Charlotte passed away from ovarian cancer, the same illness that claimed her mother, in 2013 at the age of 41.
The relationship between father and son became strained after Pierce revealed he had “cut him off” due to Christopher’s refusal to overcome his drug addiction. Christopher has struggled with cocaine and heroin addictions, and once fell into a coma following an overdose.
Despite their estrangement, Pierce reached out to Christopher in a Father’s Day post in June 2022. He wrote, “My love forever to you dear sons, Paris, Dylan, Sean and Christopher, thank you deeply for your love on this Father’s Day.” However, Christopher was notably absent from the accompanying photo, which featured Pierce with his other three sons: Paris, Dylan, and Sean.
Christopher’s troubled past includes a three-month jail sentence for drink-driving in 1997, after being fined £1,000 for the same offense the previous year. He also participated in the original Love Island series in 2005 and was involved in a brawl at Browns nightclub in London, leading to a ban from the venue. Additionally, he was arrested for theft at Chinawhite, another club, although the charges were later dropped.
In a 2005 interview with Playboy, Pierce spoke candidly about Christopher’s struggles. “Christopher is still very lost. Shockingly so. I know where he is, but he’s having a hard life. I can only have strong faith and believe he will recover. He has tested everybody in this family but none more so than himself. He knows how to get out. He doesn’t want to.”
Pierce emphasized the tough love approach he had to take: “It’s painful because you shut down. You never completely cut them off, but I have cut Christopher off. I had to say, ‘Go. Get busy living, or get busy dying.’ He has my prayers.”
Pierce later married Keely Shaye Smith, and the couple has been together since 1994, tying the knot at Ballintubber Abbey in County Mayo, Ireland, in 2001.
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