Keith Duffy said every day is a “learning process” as he opened up about the heartbreaking death of his father and how his friends have helped him through.
Sean Duffy died last January with his wife Pat and three sons by his side. Dad-of-two Keith, 47, told the Irish Mirror: “It’s a learning process.
“Unfortunately everyone at some stage will lose a parent, you can’t prepare yourself really for it. You think you can, but you can’t. And you don’t really know what it is like until it happens to you.
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“And I suppose my message really now is, for everyone out there to make as many memories as you possibly can with your parents. Make time for them, look after them, listen to them moaning and groaning and giving out and just take them out for dinner and have a few pints and enjoy their company.”
Keith credited his lifelong friends including his former Boyzone bandmate Ronan Keating and his Boyzlife partner Brian McFadden, for being there to help him during the tough time. He said: “I mean we are all only human. We all fall down and it is not how you fall down it is how you pick yourself back up again and it is the people around you that help you pick yourself back up. That is testimony to the friendship that we have.”
On his and Ronan’s friendship standing the test of time, he added: “We have that type of relationship that we know each other so long that we don’t have to see each other every day and every month for our friendship to stay strong and sincere.”
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