Kevin Bacon is trying on the intense aspect.
The “Footloose” star mentioned in a brand new interview that regardless of shedding a fortune in Bernie Madoff’s notorious Ponzi scheme greater than a decade in the past, he now focuses on the blessings he nonetheless has in his life.
“It sucked, and we had been definitely indignant and all of the issues,” he advised Esquire on Friday of how he and spouse Kyra Sedgwick first coped with the scandal.
“However then we awakened the subsequent day and mentioned, ‘What can we received? We love one another. We love our kids. We’re wholesome. Nobody took away our capacity to make a dwelling.’ So we received again to work.”
Bacon, 66, has by no means revealed how a lot cash he really misplaced as a result of Madoff defrauding the couple, but it surely was reported to have been within the “hundreds of thousands.”
The “A Few Good Males” actor — who at present has an estimated internet price of $45 million — advised Esquire that, satirically, he has a frequent reminder of what he went by as a result of he goes to a fitness center in New York Metropolis that’s throughout from the place Madoff used to work.
He mentioned the health facility’s leg press machine is “proper subsequent to a window” and when he seems to be out, he’s “trying proper on the constructing the place Madoff was.”
“I’m in excruciating ache, doing the leg press, staring out that window. It’s excellent, in a humorous method, as a result of I additionally must suppose, ‘I can get by this,’” Bacon mentioned. “And that’s how we felt about Madoff.”
The “Mystic River” star famous that he and Sedgwick, 59, haven’t grow to be “jaded” due to the expertise, however somewhat realized to be extra “cautious.”
“If it appears too good to be true, then it’s too good to be true,” he added.
In 2015, Bacon opened up about how the monetary blow really helped mild a fireplace in his marriage.
“I don’t suppose there was a second the place it was like, that factor occurred after which we received pissed at one another. It was form of the alternative,” he defined to GQ on the time.
“We form of went, ‘Holy s–t. Let’s … I don’t know. Let’s have intercourse or one thing. It’s free!’”
Bacon, who has been married to Sedgwick since 1988, additionally acknowledged then that there have been “so many individuals who received hit a lot tougher” than the well-known duo.
Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in jail in 2009 for defrauding 1000’s of buyers out of almost $65 billion along with his Ponzi scheme. His victims reportedly received a $4.3 billion payout.
The legal financier died of pure causes at age 82 at a North Carolina federal medical middle whereas serving his sentence. He had been affected by end-stage kidney illness and different continual illnesses.
