Kevin Costner feels ‘fortunate’ even though ‘difficult instances’ have left him ‘bruised’: ‘I’m a unmarried father’

As Kevin Costner continues to navigate the ups and downs of his private {and professional} year, the “Yellowstone” superstar may just no longer really feel extra blessed with how issues are unfolding. 

All the way through an look on “The View” on Monday, the Oscar Award-winning actor — whose dissolution from ex Christine Baumgartner was once finalized in February — spread out how his trials and tribulations each on display screen and in the back of the scenes, together with changing into a “single father,” have helped him assessment the type of guy he needs to be shifting ahead. 

“You know, I don’t want to circle this back to movies, but I will for a second,” Costner mentioned next being requested how he handles year when “stuff hits the fan.” “For as phony as they are, and as moving as they can be and funny as they can be, there’s a lot of life lessons in movies.”

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“Because we know who the bad guys are, we see it, we know who the buffoons are, and we know what it is to be noble, and sometimes even in defeat,” he endured. “And so when you go to the movies, you can see who you want to be.”

“So, I have had life take some bites out of me, and I have to look at myself as a movie,” he added. “I know I’m just a person, but who am I going to be? And one of the things I need to do is maybe not think about myself too much. These tough times have been more a moment for me to look outward and make sure the people around me are all right.”

Nonetheless, Costner mentioned he has been “really lucky.”

“Because I know I’m bruised, I know where I’m at, I’ve been really lucky, really lucky in my life,” he informed the hosts. “That doesn’t mean I haven’t been bruised, I’ve taken some big bites out of life, and life has taken some really big bites out of me, and I think I know who I want to be in the movies, and I think I know who I need to be in my life.”

Kevin Costner mentioned he by no means concept he can be a “single father.” (Steve Granitz)

Costner — who stocks Cayden, 17, Hayes, 15, and Grace, 14, with Baumgartner, and is dad to Annie, 40, Lily, 37, Joe, 36, and Liam, 26, from earlier relationships — admitted that he by no means concept he would finally end up being a “single father.”

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“Well, you would be shocked, but my life is very much like yours,” he informed the hosts. “I’m like living on a freeway, I think I’m an Uber driver. I might as well be one. I’m a single father …  that wasn’t how I drew it, but that’s where it is.”

Baumgartner to start with filed for dissolution in Might 2023, and the estranged couple had reached a agreement oath in September, assets informed Fox Information Virtual on the future. 

Their break started on a sour pitch, with the handbag dressmaker taking Costner to court docket over kid aid and the validity in their prenuptial oath. The previous couple indubitably to joint prison and bodily custody, with a sleep agenda all set forth within the MSA, in keeping with the paperwork got through Fox Information Virtual.

The Academy Award winner says his major precedence is being a father to his seven kids. (Getty Pictures)

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Together with his first two installments of his Western “Horizon: An American Saga” premiering this summer season and his “Yellowstone” go back up within the breeze, Costner mentioned he is aware of the place his priorities lie on the finish of the year. 

“I’ve had an incredibly unusual, and for the most part, beautiful life,” he informed People magazine in a unutilized interview. “[My kids] know that I have this chosen work, but honestly, I’m really clear about where my responsibility absolutely lies at the end of the day,” he mentioned. 

“What I can say is I’ve had an amazing life. I’ve been bruised, but I’ve had an amazing life, and I’m grateful for that.”

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