Milo Ventimiglia praises ‘wonderful’ parents as he struggles to hold back tears

Milo Ventimiglia appeared on The View on Friday February 17 and struggled to hide his emotion while discussing his parents. As you can see in the clip below, Milo spoke about how his father influenced how he played the role of Jack Pearson in the award-winning NBC series This Is Us.

But the conversation left the actor close to tears and he quipped “how convenient” when co-anchor Sunny Hustin offered him a box of tissues.

WATCH: Milo Ventimiglia struggles to hold back tears during emotional family moment

Milo’s parents are Carol and Peter Ventimiglia, and he was born in Anaheim outside of LA in 1977. They have always remained close and were at his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony in January 2022

Milo is now appearing in new ABC drama The Company You Keep, but he is most known for his work on This Is Us with Mandy Moore and Justin Hartley, and as Jess Mariano in The WB’s early 2000s drama Gilmore Girls.

The 47-year-old starred in two seasons of the hit show as Jess, and then made several appearances in later seasons. His character was beloved by fans though, thanks in part to his relationship with lead character Rory Gilmore, played by Alexis Bledel.

Jess arrived in Stars Hollow in the second season, a foil to Rory’s then-boyfriend Dean Forester. Jess was a cocky and troubled young teen from New York, but he fell for Rory and the pair had a tumultuous, short-lived romance.

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Milo with his parents in 2022

Speaking in 2021 when appearing on co-star Scott Patterson’s podcast I Am All In of what he loved about Jess, Milo shared: “I think he had a lot of confidence and he had a lot of insecurities.

“He kind of had to find his way back to that center, back to that middle and it made him complex.”

Milo played Jack Pearson for six years

As for his complicated romance with Rory, he added: “I think things are complicated when you’re young. I think you’re going through a developmental change. You are seeing things in the world that you’ve never seen before. You’re experiencing things from the heart, from the gut, from the head, that you’re experiencing for the first time.

“So I think Jess and Rory, I think they were what they needed from the moment, from each other and at the same time, it didn’t work out. They went in different directions. And that’s OK too. That’s kind of great.”

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