Mary McEvoy has admitted she has a lot of regrets as she opened up about the relationship she had with her parents. The former Glenroe star was raised on her family farm in Westmeath, and said it broke her father’s heart when she went to Dublin to pursue acting. ” I didn’t fight with my father or anything like that, but there was definitely a chasm of understanding, you know, and there was a lot of things that he didn’t understand and wasn’t going to
understand, and sometimes quite rightly about modern life,” she said. Speaking to Dermot Whelan on RTE’s Museum of Me, Mary added that her parents never asked her about her role in Glenroe. “He never spoke about it, but he did watch it, yeah,” she said of her dad. “But it was such a strange world to him, like he never asked me about it, and my mother wouldn’t ask me about it, you know. “And I didn’t volunteer any information really, but they liked the
fact that Glenroe was a farm. They liked that, they liked that it was portraying farming life.” She admitted she has many regrets but she thinks her late parents are okay with her now. “Any time I ever left, you know, for a period of time in terms of going to Dublin for the first time and then I came home for a while, and then I went back up again, and that’s when I started the acting, I do know that he would have
preferred me to be here than there,” said Mary. “It broke his heart, it broke his heart. I have got lots of regrets, but I think that’s the nature of the beast. That is grief, and there comes with regrets, do you know what I mean? But now I kind of can let it go. I feel that whatever they are now, or whoever they are now. They’re okay with me, I think.” Elsewhere in the show, she also spoke of how she and her
mum were both fiery women. “We were two fiery women, you know, so there was plenty of sparks between us,” she recalled. “She didn’t regret getting married, I don’t think, and I don’t think she regretted having me, but I do think she was frustrated because her calling was nursing, and she loved it. She really loved it.” Museum of Me airs on Sundays at 8:30pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player. Want to see more of the stories you love from RSVP ? To
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