Actor Pierce Brosnan is ready to talk about the devastating losses of his wife and daughter

LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 17: Actor Pierce Brosnan attends the premiere of the Weinstein Company's 'No Escape' in Partnership With Lifeway Foods at Regal Cinemas L.A. Live on August 17, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for The Weinstein Company)

Pierce Brosnan is opening up about the tragic deaths of his first wife and their daughter.

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In an interview with Esquire, the “James Bond” franchise actor talked about his late wife Cassandra and daughter Charlotte, both of whom he lost to ovarian cancer.

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Cassandra was the first to pass away in 1991, and Charlotte died 22 years later in 2013 from the same illness that took her mother’s life. With all of the sadness in his life, Brosnan admitted it’s been hard to keep a positive outlook on his own life.

“I don’t look at the cup as half full, believe me,” he told the magazine. “The dark, melancholy Irish black dog sits beside me from time to time.”

Brosnan is also father to Sean Brosnan with his late wife and adopted her two children, Charlotte and Christopher. Following her death, Brosnan eventually married his current wife Keely in 2001 and has two sons, Dylan and Paris, with her.

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The actor shared that his somewhat unconventional upbringing helped him become the father he is today. When he was an infant, Brosnan’s father left the family and his mother eventually left their native Ireland for work in London. He was essentially orphaned and eventually found himself in a boardinghouse where he slept on a “metal bed with a curtain around it.”

“My fatherly instincts are purely my own. They relate back to no one, because there was no one,” he said. Brosnan was reunited with his biological father in 1984.

“I only met Tom the once. I had a Sunday afternoon with him. A story about this and that, had a few pints of Guinness, and we said goodbye. I would have loved to have known him. He was a good whistler and he had a good walk. […] That’s as much as I know about him.”

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