{"id":299961,"date":"2026-02-19T22:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/299961\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T22:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:50:10","slug":"gordon-ramsay-on-his-netflix-doc-series-and-abusive-alcoholic-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/299961\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Ramsay on His Netflix Doc Series and Abusive, Alcoholic Father"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tGordon Ramsay<\/a> is showing his vulnerable side.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his new Netflix<\/a> docu series, \u201cBeing Gordon Ramsay<\/a>,\u201d the celebrity gets emotional, even tearing up several times while talking about his wife Tana and their six kids, as well as his strained relationship with his abusive father, Gordon Sr., an alcoholic who died of a heart attack in 1997. He was 53. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think it\u2019s healthy to cry,\u201d Ramsay tells me over Zoom just days ahead of the series\u2019 premiere, adding, \u201cI think it\u2019s healthy to cry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBeing Gordon Ramsay\u201d chronicles his most ambitious project in his almost 30-year career, a five-restaurant and culinary school complex at the top of London\u2019s 22 Bishopsgate skyscraper.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn no uncertain terms, Ramsay makes it clear that his father never appreciated his culinary pursuits. His dad died just as Ramsay was on the verge of launching what would become his sprawling restaurant, hospitality and media empire.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe elder Ramsay was an aspiring musician. \u201cI grew up watching my father follow a career in music that didn\u2019t happen \u2014 that didn\u2019t work for him,\u201d Ramsay says. \u201cMy mates in the music business asked me, \u2018How the fuck do you know so much about Gibson and Fender Strats and Telecasters? How do you know about synthesizers?’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThose unfulfilled dreams led to an unstable childhood. \u201cI was lugging that gear up in and out of bars, in and out of Glasgow where he\u2019d play for 60, 70 bucks a night,\u201d Ramsay recalls. \u201cThen he\u2019d disappear to Nashville. They would have all the collectors at the door and my mum in tears answering the door because people were chasing her for money that my dad owed them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe previously opened up about his father\u2019s emotional and physical abuse towards him, his mom and his siblings in his 2006 memoir, \u201cHumble Pie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t know if he was interested in what I did, I think,\u201d Ramsay says. \u201cI remember seeing him with a glass of red wine and he filled it up with Sprite because he tried to tell me it tasted better. I was like, oh, Jesus Christ. If my sommeliers saw this or any of my chefs heard my father talk like this, they\u2019d think I was a fucking idiot. \u2018OK, Dad, why?\u2019 \u2019Well, it brings out the grape.\u2019 I just sat there like that thinking, \u2018Oh my God.\u2019 My head was in my hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe continues, \u201cI never got to cook for him, and I think in many ways I got to live with that. Maybe that\u2019s a good thing. I think things happened for a reason, and him not being sat at the table getting looked after and spoiled in my restaurant, I don\u2019t know if he could handle that, if I\u2019m honest.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHis mom Helen, on the other hand, \u201cis one of the most important women in my life,\u201d Ramsay notes. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve always been a mother\u2019s boy,\u201d he says, smiling. \u201cI won my first Michelin Star years ago and I said to Tana, \u2018Look, I\u2019m embarrassed. Mom\u2019s in a high-rise, in a tenement block, and she can barely afford to pay the rent. I\u2019m going to take out this loan.\u2019 Mom must have been 19 when she had me. She was in her late 40s and never ever owned a property.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe bought her a three-bedroom bungalow. \u201cThat, for me, was more important than winning my first Michelin Star because mom always spoke about owning her own house, having her own bedroom, bathroom, back garden, having all the plants, the ornaments and everything,\u201d Ramsay says.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tAdam Peaty, Holly Ramsay, Tana Ramsay, Oscar James Ramsay, Tilly Ramsay and Henry Farrow attend the launch of \u201cBeing Gordon Ramsay\u201d on Feb. 16 in London.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGetty Images for Netflix UK<\/p>\n

\n\tRamsay, who turns 60 in November, admits he feels guilt for putting career before spending time with his and Tana\u2019s eldest kids, Megan, fraternal twins Holly and Jack, and Tilly. The series shows him doting on their young sons, Oscar, 7, and Jesse, 2.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI want to be the father to my family that I never grew up with,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m the opposite. Everything I grew up with and witnessed, I\u2019m the opposite. I\u2019ve never to this day been wandering around the dining room with a glass of champagne, messing around, drinking with customers. I don\u2019t do that.\u201d (In one of the docu series\u2019 most heartbreaking moments, Ramsay details his brother\u2019s battle with heroin addiction.)<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd just when viewers of the series think Bishopsgate could be his swan song, he tells Tana in the final episode \u2013 SPOILER ALERT! \u2014 that he\u2019s thinking about opening a new place in New York City. \u201cWhat the fuck would I do?\u201d he says when I ask if he ever thinks of slowing down. \u201cWhat am I going to do? Go and have matcha lattes and go to fucking yoga classes every day, and turn into a fat, lazy chef that wants to sit there and wallow on his boat? No. No. I have a responsibility to talent and I\u2019ve made my bed, but I want to sleep in it comfortably and I do not want to retire.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBeing Gordon Ramsay\u201d is available now on Netflix.<\/p>\n

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