BARRY Keoghan said he has had “a lot of problems with trust” after growing up in the care system.
The Dublin-born actor has been outspoken about his childhood, which saw him and his brother sent to different foster homes as their mother struggled, and later died, from drug addiction.
Appearing on the This Life Of Mine podcast with British star James Corden, Keoghan explained how the foster care system “starts to affect you as you grow up”.
He said: “I had a lot of problems with trust, never trusted love, never trusted that someone wanted to know me, or, let’s say, be a friend, for instance,” he said, amid reports his relationship with US pop star Sabrina Carpenter had come to an end.
“You don’t trust the process of anything.
“You have a problem with attachment and abandonment, all of these things …