Robert Downey Jr.’s Father First Gave Him Medication At Age 6, New Documentary ‘Sr.’ Reveals

Robert Downey Jr. opens up about his turbulent relationship along with his late father, Robert Downey Sr., in his new Netflix documentary “Sr.”

Downey Sr. handed away at age 85 in July 2021 after a battle with Parkinson’s illness.

Within the harrowing doc, which was produced by the actor and his spouse Susan, Downey Jr. talks about turning into hooked on medication at age simply 8 after his father gave him hashish for the primary time two years previous to that, the Each day Mail studies.

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Downey Jr. shares of his upbringing, “I believe we might be remiss to not focus on its impact on me,” as his father says within the doc, “Boy, I’d positive like to miss that dialogue.”

The brand new documentary features a clip from an previous interview, thought to have taken place within the ’90s.

Downey Sr. admits within the chat, “A whole lot of us thought it might be hypocritical to not have our children take part in marijuana and stuff like that. It was an fool transfer on our components to share that with our youngsters. I’m simply comfortable he’s right here.”

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When requested if he was ever fearful his son, who was sat subsequent to him, won’t survive, Downey Sr. replies: “Many instances.”

In keeping with the Mail, Downey Jr. in contrast his dependancy to cocaine and heroin to “like [having] a shotgun in my mouth, and I’ve bought my finger on the set off, and I just like the style of the gun metallic.”

Downey Jr., who was out and in of jail for years amid his battle with dependancy, admitted in a 1988 interview that doing medication turned one thing he and his dad bonded over.

The “Iron Man” star mentioned on the time, “When my dad and I’d do medication collectively, it was like him making an attempt to precise his love for me in the one approach he knew.”

Downey Jr. turned sober after now-wife Susan Levin, whom he met in 2003, mentioned she’d solely marry him if he promised to give up medication for good. The pair tied the knot in 2005.

“Sr.” is now streaming on Netflix.