Ross Kemp doesn't "expect sympathy" from his family when it comes to his gruelling filming.
Ross Kemp doesn't expect 'sympathy' from his family
The 59-year-old actor turned documentary maker admitted he doesn't "moan" about his job when he's with his wife Renee O'Brien - with whom he has son Leo and twin daughters - because of the amount she has to do every day.
He told The Sun newspaper: "I don’t expect sympathy. You can’t come back and moan about the conditions in a prison when she has been doing two jobs — one being a mum and the other being a lawyer.
“If I wanted sympathy and looked for it I don’t think I would get very much — so there is no point in asking.
“Also, when you get critiqued for bringing the wrong socks by your twin daughters, it’s like, OK..."
The former 'EastEnders' star - who has written about his wild career in new book 'Take Nothing For Granted: Tales From An Unexpected Life' - insisted his daring shoots are nothing compared to the pressures of parenthood.
Ross - who also has son Oliver from a previous relationship - added: “I say it in the book, you think my job is hard but the hardest job you will ever do is being a parent.
“There is no road map — nothing is every perfectly right.
“You can read all the books in the world but your child will not be the one that is in that book.”
That's not to say his documentaries aren't a struggle to film, and he's survived being shot at by the Taliban as well as finding himself held at gunpoint in Papua New Guinea.
He admitted it's vital to find a "dark sense of humour" to help deal with such traumatic experiences.
He explained: "We also use trauma risk management which means sitting down and talking through trauma with your colleagues.
“That can be being shot at, you can be in a road traffic accident or your son has been killed by drug dealers.
“What keeps me up now isn’t necessarily those events, it’s worrying about not being around for my kids.”
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