Actress Ruth Negga spoke to Ryan Tubridy on last night's Late Late Show about travelling to Ethiopia and visiting her father's grave when she was 18.
Negga was born in Ethiopia in 1982 to an Irish mother and an Ethiopian father. She lived there until she was four and was then raised in Limerick. Her father died in a car accident when she was seven.
"I met my family, it was very moving, I went to my father's grave and all those things," she said on the Late Late.
When asked if it was a difficult thing to do, she replied. "Very much so. But it's a necessary one, I think. You can't ignore your history. I think it's something that's important to deal with grief and death and those things that sometimes not all of us are very good at.
"Sometimes," she added, "in a strange way we get embarrassed by death, and embarrassed by grief.
"It's also something deeply personal . . . We all have different ways of dealing with it and coming to terms . . and processing it."
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