Hollywood actor Al Pacino has confirmed he doesn’t live with his youngest child Roman, but he does communicate with his son via text message.
The 84-year-old star, who welcomed Roman in June 2023 with his ex-girlfriend Noor Alfallah, revealed: ‘He does text me from time to time,’ when asked about his baby boy.
In a recent interview with the BBC, Pacino said of his son: ‘Everything he does is real. Everything he does is interesting to me. So, we talk. I play the harmonica with him on the other video thing, and we have made this kind of contact. So, it’s fun.’
The Oscar winner also revealed that ‘part of the reason’ he wanted to write his new memoir, Sonny Boy, is for his youngest child because Roman will be able to read about his famous father’s life story.
‘I want to be around for this child. And I hope I am,’ The Godfather star said, before adding: ‘I hope I stay healthy, and he knows who his dad is, of course.’
Al Pacino, pictured here in March 2024, has confirmed he doesn’t live with his 16-month-old son Roman
The actor’s ex-girlfriend Noor Alfallah pictured out and about with their son Roman last week
Pacino also confirmed that he has turned down several offers to write a memoir over the years, but decided that now ‘enough has happened in my life it could possibly be interesting enough for someone to read.’
In the book, Pacino has opened up about why he ‘shied away’ from marriage, admitting that his decision not to commit caused him years of ‘hurt.’
The actor has had a string of high-profile relationships throughout his illustrious career, including Diane Keaton, Jill Clayburgh, Penelope Ann Miller, Lyndall Hobbs, and Lucila Solá – but famously never wed.
Writing in his memoir, Pacino revealed he stood strongly against such a union because he never thought it would ‘help anything,’ but he did come close to proposing to his ex-girlfriend and Apollo 13 actress Kathleen Quinlan, now 69.
‘My time with Kathleen was the closest I’ve ever come to getting married,’ he wrote. ‘But I’ve always shied away from marriage.
‘I guess I didn’t see how it would help anything. I just wanted to avoid what I thought, at the time, was the inevitable, an entrance to the pain train.’
He went on to add: ‘I thank God that Kathleen is still my friend to this day and I love her. But it wasn’t easy to say no to marriage with a woman I loved.
‘She knew what she wanted and she got it, only it was with someone else. It hurt when she left and I carried the hurt with me for years.’
Al and Noor welcomed son Roman in June 2023, making Al one of the oldest fathers in history
Noor and Al, pictured here in August 2023, were first romantically linked in April 2022
Pacino dated Quinlan for approximately two years from 1979 to 1981.
Despite never marrying, the movie star has fathered four children from three different relationships.
He shares daughter Julie Marie, 34, with acting coach Jan Tarrant, and has fraternal twins Anton and Olivia, 23, with National Lampoon’s Vacation actress Beverly D’Angelo, as well as Roman with producer and executive Alfallah.
In August, while out and about in Beverly Hills, Alfallah was asked whether she would ever consider marrying Al, to which she replied: ‘I don’t know.’
She had previously remarked that she had no intention of walking down the aisle with the Oscar winner, describing herself as ‘not the marrying type’ in November 2023.
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