Ruby Rose mourns death of father who ‘broke her trust’

Aussie actress Ruby Rose has announced some sad news on social media, suffering a family tragedy just days before Christmas.

Australian actress Ruby Rose revealed on Monday that her father Peter had died just days before Christmas.

The former Orange Is The New Black star made a brief announcement via her Instagram Stories on Monday night, writing simply: “RIP Dad. You leave me. Alone. With so many complex emotions.”

She has not yet publicly released any further details about her father’s death.

Rose, 38, has spoken of her complicated upbringing in the past, with a period of estrangement from her father after her parents split when she was just a year old.

Rose had a complicated relationship with her father.

A sad announcement, just two days before Christmas.

“I didn’t see my dad for a long time, but when I hit adolescence I went through that period of self-discovery and wanted to know where I came from,” she told the Sydney Morning Herald in 2011.

“I had my trust broken a lot by my dad and in life it all comes down to trust. You learn that very early on.”

Last year, Rose began teasing plans to release a tell-all memoir, which she said would tell her story from her childhood to her very public relationships – including her side of the story amid her messy split from The Veronicas’ Jess Origliasso.

Rose had planned a juicy tell-all memoir about her life – but then got cold feet. Picture: Getty

Ruby Rose has spoken candidly about her relationship with her father. Pictures: Instagram

“The truth. It will p*ss a lot of people off,” Rose wrote on her Instagram stories at the time. “But maybe you should have been better? Excited to be free. Excited to tell the truth.

“On the sisters [Veronicas]? You’re first. How horrific you were.”

But speaking to news.com.au months later, Rose said she made the decision to “pause” on the book, adding it was proving a “scary” and “emotional” experience.

At the time, she was appearing in a play in Melbourne and said she wanted to focus her energies on acting instead.

“I won’t be picking it up until after I finish working on the play, because I can’t … There’s just no way I would be capable of emotionally having the bandwidth of doing those two things at the same time,” Rose says.

“It’s so exciting to go completely into a character, it would just be nonsense to attempt something like that [the book].”

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