'They Were Kindred Spirits': Conan O'Brien Reflects On Parents After They Died Days Apart
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The former late night host opened up about his late parents who "complemented each other very well."
Conan O’Brien reflected on memories of his late parents, Dr. Thomas O’Brien and Ruth Reardon O’Brien, after they died three days apart from each other last week.
The former late night host, in a piece by the Boston Globe, opened up about growing up in his hometown of Brookline, Massachusetts as he remarked on how his parents “complemented each other very well.”
Conan O’Brien’s father, an associated professor at Harvard Medical School known for his work in antimicrobial drug resistance, died at age 95 on Dec. 9 after “his health had been failing” him, the Globe noted in an obituary.
O’Brien’s mother, a lawyer and just the second woman partner at the Boston-founded Ropes & Gray law firm, died “peacefully” at age 92 on Dec. 12, per an obituary shared by Bell O’Dea Funeral Home of Brookline.
“I think what my mother and father saw in each other was that they were kindred spirits,” O’Brien told the Globe.
