The 79-year-old Oscar winner revealed that he has had seven children during an interview with ET Canada in which he also talked about parenting and his most recent movie, About My Father.
With kids, there really is no getting around it. I dislike having to enforce the law and other such things.
But occasionally, you really don't have a choice," he said. "And I believe that any parent would agree with this statement.
Even though you always want to act in the best interests of the kids and give them the benefit of the doubt, you sometimes can't.
De Niro corrected himself when the interviewer inquired about his six children by saying, "Seven, actually."
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