Jason Ritter has been candid about losing his father, actor John Ritter, in his early 20s and struggling with alcoholism while dating now-wife Melanie Lynskey.
alum suffered a loss when his father, John, died of aortic dissection at 54. , Jason revealed that his father’s death made him “realize how fragile we all are.”
He continued: “At the end of the day, you can be a health freak or a body builder, but a truck might hit you. Or you might be a huge, larger than life personality and it could all be taken away in the next second. I learned to tell people in my life how I feel about them a little bit more.”“My character [on the show] dealt with his tragedy by making fun of it all the time. I don't know if that had anything to do with it, but I started to do that myself.
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