Billy Idol says he and his long-lost son Brant Broad have become โquite good friends.โ
โI love him. Heโs a nice guy,โ the rocker told the British newspaper, โThe i Paper,โ on June 24.
The documentary โBilly Idol Should Be Dead,โ which premiered this month at the Tribeca Film Festival documentary, recalls the singerโs 2023 discovery of Broad, who Idol conceived in 1985, amid his โRebel Yellโ tour days.
Idolโs adult daughter Bonnie took a genetics test and found a half-sibling in Broad, who works in the construction business, according to newspaper’s account of the documentary.
Idol told โThe i Paperโ that during the height of his career, โWe were going around in the 80s, and 70s, just having knockdown, drag-out sex with a million people you didnโt know. A lot of people in the rock world got children beyond their usual relationships.โ
Idol told โThe i Paperโ that heโs happy as a family man.
โIโm all set up for that,โ Idol told the outlet. โIโm in a better place in my life. In lots of ways, Iโve done everything I wanted, at least to my own satisfaction. And now Iโm not a drug addict, I can really be there for them.โ
Idol is also father to son Willem Wolfe Broad and daughter Bonnie Blue Broad, and he’s a grandfather.
The โWhite Weddingโ singer raves about fatherhood in the documentary โBilly Idol Should Be Dead,โ according to People.
โI really enjoyed being a dad. I always wanted a boy and a girl, and I finagled my way into a boy and a girl. In your own daft way, youโve achieved what you set out to do,โ Idol said in the documentary, according to People. โAnd I actually had a son that I didnโt realize, who I fathered on the Rebel Yell tour without knowing it. So I somehow finagled this as well.โ
Idol reportedly said that Broad fit right into his family.
โOnce I saw Brant with Bonnie and Willem, theyโve all got the same quirky sense of humor,โ Idol said in the doc, according to People. โAnd once I saw that, I could see heโs my son, really.โ
