Springsteen said their three kids grew up “all at a nice distance from the strangeness of my job.”
Bruce Springsteen is getting candid about what it was like to raise three kids as a rockstar dad.
The 20-time Grammy winner, 75, shared in a new interview with The Times that he and his wife Patti Scialfa, 71, often “didn’t expose” their three children to their fame when they were growing up. The pair, whose relationship expands to the stage as part of the E Street Band, share three children: Evan, 34, Jessica, 32, and Samuel, 30.
“When they were little, if they heard me on the radio they would go, ‘Bruce Springsteen!’ It was their way of separating their dad from this abstract character who also seemed to be a part of their lives,” Springsteen told the outlet.
“A lot of times, we just didn’t expose them to it,” he added. “They came to concerts a few times before going back to their rooms to play video games, and didn’t know much about it beyond what they may have read.”