The US comedian and actor’s son Henry died in 2018 aged two after being diagnosed with a brain tumour. Delaney, 47, was asked on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, why he and his wife told Henry they were expecting their fourth son before anyone else. He replied saying: “He had to know that this family that loved him was alive and was growing and that there was somebody that we were going to tell about him.
“I don’t know that there’d be another little nugget in the house that he could vibe with from whatever area in the cosmos he was, but he needed to know. “And we knew that they would not overlap corporally on this Earth, even though Henry’s younger brother was born in the same room that Henry died in, our living room. “We don’t live there anymore but when we moved out, I asked the landlord, I said’, Listen, if you ever go to sell this place, we let me know first because I would like to buy it.
“So that when I’m 81 I can crawl in here and die. In the same room that my son died in that my other son was born in’.” However, Delaney said him and his spouse Leah Delaney have considered leaving London, but have stayed because of Henry’s memories.
“For so many reasons, we’ve stayed, one of which is I like to go put my hands on slides at the playground that Henry slid down. “I like to see nurses periodically bump into him that took care of him so London is very important to me and London took very good care of him, the NHS at large, the friends .
