What We Know About Jason Ritter's Relationship With His Late Father, John Ritter

John Ritter's son, Jason, was 23 years old and the oldest of four children with the youngest turning 5 on the day Ritter died. The actor's shocking death rocked the young family. 

Jason opened up about the loss on the podcast "Melissa River's Group Text," saying, "When there's someone in your family who's a force of nature, where they come into a room and that's where the focus goes, it's bizarre when that person is gone. There's like a black hole of energy ... and your family becomes something different but it's hard to comprehend that a life like that is over."

In an ABC special that honored John Ritter called "Superstar," Jason acknowledged his dad's innate talent and said he actively tries to feel grateful for having had his father in his life rather than cheated that he was taken too soon. "One of the things that I try to do is look at his life. Instead of feeling like I was reading this beautiful book and all of a sudden the last ten chapters were ripped out, I started to look at it as, that was the whole book," he said (via MovieWeb). "That's the whole story. And what's the beauty in that. And there was so much beauty in his life."