India, April 9 -- This article contains sensitive content; mentions of suicide and may contain spoilers too.

American actor Walton Goggins, who played the role of Rick Hatchett in The White Lotus season 3, has recalled how he undertook a strikingly similar journey in real life nearly 20 years ago. Just like his character, who travels to Thailand in search of answers about his father's death, Walton too went to Thailand following a personal tragedy - the death of his first wife by suicide in 2004.

In the HBO series, Rick arrives in Thailand seeking vengeance, believing he's closing in on the man responsible for his father's murder. But in a dramatic twist revealed in the season finale, Rick discovers that the man he believed was his fath...