​Cult American actor Kevin Bacon, known for many films such as “JFK”, “Apollo 13” or “A Few Good Men”, says that he and his wife lost most of their money through a Ponzi scheme created by Bernie’s former financier Madoff, Insider reports.

The 64-year-old actor opened up on a recent episode of the ‘SmartLess’ podcast hosted by actors Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett, revealing that he and his wife, American actress Kyra Sedgwick, had “most of the money”. Madoff.”

“Obviously, there’s a life lesson here. If something sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true,” he said.

Invoking the classic cliché “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”, Kevin Bacon also spoke about his and his wife’s attitude after the collapse of the cardboard financial empire built by the American financier:

“I’ve come this far. Our children are healthy. We are healthy. Let’s see what we have good. We can both still work.”

He also stated that the couple later managed to recover some of the money from Madoff’s investment fund, which turned out to be the largest pyramid scheme in the history of Wall Street. The financier died in prison last April.

Kevin Bacon says he’s not complaining about the money

Although Bacon did not say exactly how much money he lost, it seems that the less negative attitude towards the loss paid off: the couple managed to amass a fortune of $45 million together in the 13 years after the collapse of the pyramid. according to the materials of Entrepreneur magazine.

In fact, he realized during the podcast that “I don’t think people are going to enjoy hearing me complain about money.”

“Of course you get angry and all that, but I have to say there were a lot more people who were affected a lot more than us – the elderly, people whose retirement savings were completely wiped out. Therefore, there will always be someone who had it worse than you,” he added.

He made similar claims in an interview with The Guardian newspaper in 2017 after British journalists asked him about media rumors that he was one of those who lost “millions” in a Ponzi scheme.

The actor then said that he did not want to divert attention from the “real victims”.

And as a father, Bacon also has reason to be proud that his latest film Smile, starring his daughter and Sedgwick’s daughter Saucy Bacon, has topped the North American box office for the second week in a row.