Actor and TV writer Rob Delaney is opening up about the realities of grief when you have lost a child.
Delaney, who lost his toddler Henry to cancer six years ago, says it's dealing with other people's discomfort and awkwardness around the subject of his deceased child that brings a lot of frustration.
"They get scared of you. They think they're going to catch dead kid from you," he said on the talk show Loose Women.
"The reality is that there's no right thing to say."
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Many who have lost a loved one under traumatic circumstances can relate.
The story of Walter Mikac would come to mind for many, the Tasmanian man who lost his wife and two daughters during the Port Arthur Massacre.
In Leigh Sales' book Any Ordinary Day, Mikac spoke of how his friends struggled to interact around him following the immense loss Mikac had suffered.
"The one I think about was my friend Doug. One day, I was walking down the street and he was coming the other way. As soon as he saw me he turned and started walking the other way. I sort of had to make a split-second decision. What am I going to do? If I let him go, we'll probably never have a conversation ever again," Mikac recounted to Sales.