Zach Gilford Reveals He Missed His Son's Birth, Was On Set During Pandemic Era

Zach Gilford is opening up about missing the birth of his son.

The 43-year-old Criminal Minds: Evolution star revealed in an interview released this week that he as filming a TV show during the pandemic, and unfortunately was unable to make it to his son Revel‘s birth.

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“It’s definitely something I’m really proud of,” he said on The Julia Cunningham Show of the Netflix series Midnight Mass. “Which sounds weird ’cause it’s a vampire show.”

“There’s a lot of existential stuff going on in that [show]. Also, it was during the pandemic [when] we shot it, it was, I had to miss the birth of my son to shoot it,” Zach shared. “I was really in the headspace of ‘I suck, I don’t to be here.’ This is like, ‘Maybe I’ll meet my son someday.’”

“Luckily I did, spoiler,” he joked. “He likes me. He didn’t even notice, he was fine.”

Zach‘s shares now four-year-old son Revel with soon-to-be ex-wife Kiele Sanchez, as well as seven-year-old daughter Zeppelin.

Back in April, Zach filed for divorce from Kiele after 12 years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences.

They met while working on a TV pilot that never got picked up, and since then also worked together on The Purge: Anarchy and on Kingdom, as well as more recently on Criminal Minds: Evolution, where she played his character’s wife.