Penn Badgley Opens Up About How He Deals with the Moments He Loses His Patience as a Dad: 'It Can Be Tough'

Mar. 15, 2025

Penn Badgley at the Giorgio Armani RTW Spring 2025 fashion show.Photo:John Nacion/WWD via Getty

John Nacion/WWD via Getty

Penn Badgleyis opening up about an experience he had with his son.

“It wasn’t helping him because he was already so upset and I stopped and I said, … ‘I’m being impatient with you and you probably don’t like the way that I’m speaking to you, do you?’ " he recalled. “And I said, ‘I’m sorry.'”

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Penn Badgley with his son.Domino Kirke Instagram

Domino Kirke Instagram

When reflecting on being a parent and this moment with his son, theYoustar shared that while there are some “tough” moments, he doesn’t want to lose his patience with his son.

“Sometimes it can be tough and you can just be over it. And for whatever reason, there’s always going to be the times as a parent, … you lose your patience,” he said. “For me, it’s just the sheer size of them, being so small, the naivete, the helplessness. I would lose my patience with other people, no doubt, but not [him].

Badgley shares his son with wifeDomino Kirke, 40, and is also stepdad to Kirke’s son.

Penn Badgley and his wife Domino Kirke.Cindy Ord/Getty

While appearing on the New York Times’Modern Lovepodcast in March 2024, theEasy Aactor read an essay about a father who had to be vulnerable around his sons, prompting the star to share how vulnerable he is around his own kids.

“I have an interesting situation where I have a biological son and a stepson,” Badgley began. “And my stepson…his father is very much in his life, so his father is his father, and I’m something else. So I have two different kind of parental roles.”

“And then my biological son is only 3½,” he continued. “So, that’s a very different thing, too. I’m going to need to be able to more consciously show him my vulnerability as he gets older in those years, you know?”

source: people.com