After grieving, the younger pair had a daughter, Shauna, the next yr. Their second son, James, was then born untimely in 1962 with respiratory misery syndrome, a respiration dysfunction that impacts newborns.
“The toughest factor on the planet is when your youngsters have issues,” the Oscar winner stated at one time. “There have been so many hits on our household that nobody is aware of about, and I do not need them to, for my household’s sake.”
James would later be identified with major sclerosing cholangitis, a illness that impacts the liver and bile ducts, as an grownup. Whereas he acquired two liver transplants in 1993, he died in 2020.
“The grief is immeasurable with the loss of a kid,” Redford’s rep stated on the time. “Jamie was a loving son, husband, and father. His legacy lives on by means of his youngsters, artwork, filmmaking, and devoted ardour to conservation and the setting.”