Robson Green on healing family rift with dad before his death

Robson Green is back in the saddle as DI Geordie Keating with full swing.

This actor is one of TV’s most bankable stars, but he did not have the easiest start in life. Robson revealed he was “scared” of his father.

Actor’s family lived in Dudley, Northumberland, where his father worked as a miner. Green’s father, whose name was also Robson, was just 15 year old when he started working in the mines. He saw his brother Billy “crushed and paralyzed from the neck down” after a horrifying accident in the pit.

While remembering the situation between him and his father, Robson recalled the time he was playing football and lost one of his shoes after which he told his dad “gave me the biggest hiding of my life”.

Speaking about his childhood, actor said: “I had to bring my mother money for us to survive.

“I was becoming more estranged from my father and I was reminded by certain people that I was in denial about it.”

Robson said when he decided to make relationship better with his father, he was able to make amends with his dad by getting back in touch with him.

He said, “I told him he was an idiot. I probably was sometimes myself, but I didn’t deserve half the stuff I was given and reminded him of that,”

He said his father at first denied there was a problem between them, but with Robson pointing out that that was the “barrier” between them. After that the pair made amends with the father-of-one- revealing: “I said to him with everything that went on, we’ve talked about it, I forgive you now. Let’s get on with it.”

Speaking at his dad’s funeral, the actor paid tribute to his father, who he said had endured “the most dangerous job in the world”.