Leonard Nimoy, the actor known and loved by generations of “Star Trek' fans as the pointy-eared, purely logical science officer Mr. Spock, died in 2015. He was 83.
Leonard Nimoy’s son, Adam Nimoy, was stunned when the 'Star Trek' actor wrote him a six-page letter that 'read like an account of a failed and wasted life.' It was 2008, and by then, Adam had been sober for about four years. The relationship between father and son was 'at an all-time low.' 'I was going to Alcoholics Anonymous and learning about how to deal with my dad,' Adam told Fox News Digital. 'He just had so much anger.
Growing up, Adam described his father as 'very motivated, very hungry to succeed.' And as Nimoy skyrocketed to fame, they couldn’t be in public together without crowds of strangers mobbing them. 'My dad was just not that comfortable being alone with me,' Adam explained. 'And it had a lot to do with the fact that he always had stuff on his mind. . . . I had trouble relating to my dad. We didn’t hang out that much. And he was always such a doer.
wanted to break that cycle,' Adam reflected. 'With my children, I was very demonstrative, very involved. I’m a different person than my dad was. . . . I expressed feelings of love and pride and joy of just being with them… But for my dad, it was very difficult for him to break that cycle. . . . My grandparents were Russian immigrants who came to America and were shellshocked when they got here. It was all about survival. That’s what it was for Leonard.
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