Robert Redford has been battling secret heartache many years before his son James Redford passed away last week. The 84-year-old Hollywood legend has now tragically outlived two of his four children, losing son Scott just two months after he was born in 1959.
While Robert is suffering "immeasurable" grief after James, an activist and filmmaker, died on Friday after being diagnosed with liver cancer, it sadly isn't his first time losing a child.
Robert welcomed first-born son Scott with ex-wife Lola Van Wagenen in September 1959, but horror struck as just two months later, Scott died of sudden infant death syndrome.
Doctors were unable to save the tot, leaving Robert and Lola utterly devastated. The pair held an intimate funeral for Scott
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