Jon Hamm is a "weird uncle".
The ‘Mad Men’ actor is close to his older step-sisters but doesn’t get to see much of them or their children because they live in their native St. Louis, Missouri, while he resides in Los Angeles.
He said: "I was 10 when my mum died and 20 when my father passed away so my sisters were my support network.
"I lived with my older sister for a year while we figured out what was going on. They are from my father’s first marriage and are seven and 11 years older than me.
"They live in St. Louis and have grown-up kids and one has a grandkid now so I’m the weird uncle who lives on the West Coast."
The 43-year-old star thinks his parents passing away when he was so young made him more "independent" but he got through his grief by imposing a strict routine on himself.
He added to Stylist magazine: "It certainly made me an independent person very young. When you lose a parent, or both parents, there’s an abandonment situation that inevitably sinks into your being.
"So I was wrestling with that as well as getting up every morning and going about my day. I made sure I had a schedule to follow.
"When my father died, I came home for a term, enrolled in a local college and got a job in a restaurant, which made me get up every morning and stick to a routine.
"There’s no shortcut through grief and it’s hard to learn that lesson young because when you’re presented with the actual concept of forever, it’s very hard. It gets better but it never goes away."
Jon Hamm: I’m a weird uncle
