Tom Hiddleston I can’t stop gushing about fatherhood.
“It just changed everything. It completely changed the center of my life,” Hiddleston, 43, told a local magazine while attending the Miami Film Festival on Tuesday, April 9. “There is a before and an after, and I am happy to live in the after.” .”
The actor who accepted diversity‘s Virtuoso Award at the film festival went on to say it was an “honor” to be at the event. Hiddleston did not provide any further information about his personal life.
Us weekly confirmed in October 2022 that Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton had welcomed her first child.
“Tom and Zawe are loving being new parents and are full of joy,” a source said Us exclusively at that time. “They’ve been through the struggles of new parents and don’t sleep much, but they’re thrilled.”
Hiddleston and Ashton were first romantically linked in 2019 after appearing in the West End production of ” Treason. A separate source reported at the time Us that they were “crazy about each other” as the then-budding romance intensified.
They made their red carpet debut in September 2021 when they attended the 74th Annual Tony Awards. In June 2022, Hiddleston confirmed that he and Ashton were engaged after widespread speculation. Two weeks later, Ashton announced that she and Hiddleston were expecting their first child.
The actor first spoke about fatherhood in November 2023 and revealed how his perspective changed when he became a father.
“Of course it has to,” she said on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast at the time. “I think I probably knew it, but I never imagined how deep it would be until it happened. And yes, it is a before and an after.”
Before his relationship with Ashton, the Loki star notably had a high-profile romance with him Taylor Swift for three months until their split in October 2016. (He has also been linked romantically Elizabeth Olsen, Susannah Fielding And Jessica Chastain.)
Following his and Swift’s breakup, Hiddleston spoke openly about his decision to keep his dating life a secret.
“I probably protect my inner world in a different way now,” Hiddleston said The New York Times in August 2019. “If you go through life without having contact with people, how much can you call that a life?” Because you have to fight for love. You can’t live in fear of what people might say.”