Danny DeVito is overjoyed to be a grandfather and teach his kids lessons about parenthood.
In a recent video shared by AARP, the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia actor, 80, opened up about his experience being a grandfather to his two grandkids.
His oldest daughter, Lucy Chet DeVito, 41, welcomed a son named Carmine with her fiancé in July 2024.
Rhea Perlman, DeVito’s former partner whom he has never officially divorced, revealed on an episode of Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus in June 2023 that their second daughter, Grace “Gracie” Fan DeVito, 39, had welcomed a daughter named Sinclair Lucille DeVito. Perlman, 76, and DeVito are also parents to Jacob “Jake” Daniel DeVito, 37.
“In two years, my daughters have had a baby each, and since these babies have been born, you gotta tamper me down in the joy department,” said DeVito. ‘I’m just like, you know, busting.”
“There’s that saying, a watched pot never boils. So I apply that to my kids. I look at them all the time, because I don’t want them to boil. I want them to take their time and grow,” he continued.
The actor offers the same words of advice to his daughters.
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“I tell my kids that, too. Don’t miss a thing. Don’t look away. Because when you look back, that kid’s gonna be hula hooping,” he said.
The dad of three, who turned 80 in November 2024, said that his growing family is one of his biggest motivators.
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“No matter what happens in your life, the main thing is that you’ve got family and friends,” he said. “That’s all we have, basically: reliable people in our lives who we can talk to and we can open up to. I’m very fortunate. Blessing showered down on me, and I wish it for everybody.”
DeVito was recently seen on the big screen in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and A Sudden Case of Christmas. He still stars on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and recently guest-starred in a crossover episode with ABC’s Abbott Elementary, which aired on Jan. 8.
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