Colin farrell son angelman syndrome

When Colin Farrell's son James was born, the actor admits he initially didn't notice any symptoms that would lead to James's eventual diagnosis of Angelman syndrome.

"James was a very silent baby. And I just thought I’d hit the lottery, and he was chill — and he’s anything but," says Farrell, 48, who is also dad to son Henry, 15, whom he shares with former partner and Ondine costar Alicja Bachleda-Curuś. "If James had been my second child and not my first, I would’ve known sooner, because when Henry was born and I heard him cooing, I was like, 'A baby’s supposed to coo?'"

While James would cry when he was upset, "he wasn’t hitting benchmarks. He couldn’t sit up. He wasn’t crawling," Farrell recalls. "I think he was a year and a half when we took him to get really checked out, and he was diagnosed as having cerebral palsy. It was a com