Tim Roth, the acclaimed British actor who rose to global fame with roles in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, has said that both he and his father were abused by his grandfather.
Roth, who has previously spoken of his own abuse, has not before said who his abuser was, nor that his father was similarly abused.
Roth clarified that he was not himself abused by his father – as in the relationship depicted in his directorial debut, The War Zone (1999), in which a father abuses his daughter – but that they were both abused as children by his grandfather.
“He was an abused kid, my dad,” said Roth, “and it was a terrible childhood that he had, and he took that shit seriously.”