What He Said About Cancer, Health

Marking his 48th birthday on March 8, 2025, he acknowledged that he had just experienced “the hardest year” of his life.

“When I was younger I used to define myself as an actor, which was never really all that fulfilling,” he said in a video posted to Instagram. “And then I became a husband, which was much better. And then I became a father, and that was the ultimate. I could define myself then as a loving, capable, strong, supportive husband and father, provider, steward of the land that we’re so lucky to live on.

That used to be the answer, said the dad to Olivia, 15, Joshua, 13, Annabel, 12, Emilia, 9, Gwendolyn, 7, and Jeremiah, 4.

“Then, this year, I had to look my own mortality in the eye,” he continued, “and come nose-to-nose with death. And all of those definitions that I cared so deeply about were stripped from me. I was away for treatment, so I could no longer be a husband that was helpful to my wife. I could no longer be a father who could pick up his kids and put them to bed and be there for them. I could not be a provider because I wasn’t working. I couldn’t even be a steward of the land because at times I was too weak to prune all the trees during the winter.”