Kevin Bacon made some uncommon feedback about dropping cash in Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme within the 2000s.
Talking with Esquire, the actor mentioned, “There’s not that a lot to say, actually. If it appears too good to be true, then it’s too good to be true.”
He added that he and his spouse, actress Kyra Sedgwick, aren’t “jaded” from the expertise.
“Extra cautious, however not jaded,” the “Footloose” star mentioned.
KEVIN BACON, KYRA SEDGWICK AVOIDED EXPOSING THEIR KIDS TO ‘WEIRD’ LIFESTYLE THAT COMES WITH FAME
Kevin Bacon opened up about being one of many victims of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme within the early 2000s. (Nathan Congleton/NBC by way of Getty Photos)
Bacon mentioned he makes use of the frustration in his gymnasium routine.
“The machine is true subsequent to a window, and once I look out that window, I’m trying proper on the constructing the place Madoff was,” he instructed the outlet. “I’m in excruciating ache, doing the leg press, staring out that window. It’s good in a humorous method as a result of I additionally need to suppose, ‘I can get via this.’ And that’s how we felt about Madoff.”
Bacon mentioned his gymnasium overlooks the constructing the place Madoff was, and he makes use of a few of his frustrations about his expertise to push previous any exercise ache. (Gilbert Flores/Selection by way of Getty Photos)
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“It sucked, and we had been definitely indignant and all of the issues. However then we awoke the following day and mentioned, ‘What will we acquired? We love one another. We love our kids. We’re wholesome. Nobody took away our capacity to make a dwelling.’ So we acquired again to work.”
Sedgwick and Bacon opened up about dropping their financial savings of their ebook, “What Makes a Marriage Final,” after Madoff was arrested in 2008, recalling it was a troublesome time however knew they might get via it.
Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon spoke about dropping their financial savings, saying it was powerful however “we knew we had been going to get via it.” (Michael Kovac/Getty Photos for Moet & Chandon)
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“We had been each in shock at first,” Sedgwick wrote. “However then you definately do a very fast physique scan to get some perspective — it’s a must to; in any other case, you simply freak out: our kids had been secure, we had been nonetheless working, we may make the cash again … So, yeah, it felt terrible and scary for a very long time, However we knew we had been going to get via it.”
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Bacon stars within the upcoming Amazon Prime sequence “Bondsman” and the Netflix sequence “Sirens,” each to be launched this 12 months.
Fox Information Digital’s Lori A. Bashian contributed to this report.
