News | Entertainment
7 Jul 2025 16:40
NZCity News
NZCity CalculatorReturn to NZCity

  • Start Page
  • Personalise
  • Sport
  • Weather
  • Finance
  • Shopping
  • Jobs
  • Horoscopes
  • Lotto Results
  • Photo Gallery
  • Site Gallery
  • TVNow
  • Dating
  • SearchNZ
  • NZSearch
  • Crime.co.nz
  • RugbyLeague
  • Make Home
  • About NZCity
  • Contact NZCity
  • Your Privacy
  • Advertising
  • Login
  • Join for Free

  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Elijah Wood finally has a “healthy” relationship with his father

    The 40-year-old actor didn’t see or speak to his dad, Warren Wood, for years after his parents split when he was 15 but he admitted he needed to “reassess” his relationship with his parent as he got older and is happy to have a newfound closeness to his relatives


    Asked if becoming a dad himself had made him reassess his relationship with Warren, he said: “No, but I think reassessing my own relationship with my father is just something that has happened with age, with time.

    “As we get older I think all of us have conversations with ourselves and with our past and reconcile where we came from [and if] there is anything in our past that needs to be addressed.”

    Asked his relationship with Warren now, he said: “In communication, which is good. I mean it’s healthy. And I’m close with that side of my family for the first time in a really long time, which is great.”

    The ‘No Man of God’ actor and partner Mette-Marie Kongsved’s son will turn two soon and Elijah loves being a parent.

    He told Sunday Times magazine: “It is all-consuming and it’s everything but that includes the best things: hearing first words and watching your son take his first steps.

    “It’s all these incredible milestones and we’ve just begun.”

    The ‘Lord of The Rings’ actor began acting as a child but credits his mum Debra for keeping him from going off the rails.

    He said: “I’m 40 now and I haven’t had a major drug problem, and I haven’t had anything really happen to me that has been negative. For me, personally, my life wasn’t defined by what I did.

    “[Mum] drilled humility into me.”

    Elijah explained his mum always made him hang up his clothes and stopped him from jumping the lunch queue on set, as actors were encouraged to do.

    He said: “It was these micro things, but it all adds up to creating perspective and also to stress the importance of other things rather than the ephemera of what happens when you’re famous or recognisable or whatever the f***.”

    © 2025 Bang Showbiz, NZCity

     Other Entertainment News
     07 Jul: Liam Gallagher's son Lennon Gallagher "can't wait" to see his dad back onstage with Oasis
     07 Jul: Emma Roberts would love to play the next murder victim on The White Lotus
     07 Jul: Scarlett Johansson's beauty brand The Outset has launched skin survival kits in collaboration with her new movie Jurassic World Rebirth
     07 Jul: Michael Madsen was reportedly struggling with alcohol addiction before his death
     07 Jul: Paul Simon has successfully undergone surgery for "chronic and intense back pain"
     07 Jul: Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom "have been shifting their relationship to focus on coparenting"
     07 Jul: Connie Francis has been hospitalised for "extreme pain" after suffering a pelvic fracture
     Top Stories

    RUGBY RUGBY
    The All Blacks are confident Rieko Ioane will find his footing with his return to the wing ahead of the second test against France in Wellington More...


    BUSINESS BUSINESS
    The hard questions NZ must ask about the claimed economic benefits of fast-track mining projects More...



     Today's News

    Entertainment:
    Liam Gallagher's son Lennon Gallagher "can't wait" to see his dad back onstage with Oasis 16:36

    International:
    Hundreds of girls were 'living their best life' at Texas summer camp. Then disaster struck 16:27

    Law and Order:
    Wellington Police have revealed further details of serious injuries sustained by a young Hutt Valley baby 16:17

    Law and Order:
    In Australia - a jury has indicated it's reached verdicts in the fatal mushroom lunch trial - and is expected to reconvene shortly 16:07

    Entertainment:
    Emma Roberts would love to play the next murder victim on The White Lotus 16:06

    Politics:
    The Government says changes to child banking requirement - are one step in its new anti-money laundering regime 15:57

    Entertainment:
    Scarlett Johansson's beauty brand The Outset has launched skin survival kits in collaboration with her new movie Jurassic World Rebirth 15:36

    Entertainment:
    Michael Madsen was reportedly struggling with alcohol addiction before his death 15:06

    Health & Safety:
    Wellington Hospital's trialling cutting maternity and gynaecology beds, to ease ED pressure 14:57

    Entertainment:
    Paul Simon has successfully undergone surgery for "chronic and intense back pain" 14:36


     News Search






    Power Search


    © 2025 New Zealand City Ltd