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KJ Apa’s summer 2026 plans include traveling to his home country of New Zealand with his young son<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
The Riverdale<\/em> alum shares 4-year-old Sasha with ex-girlfriend Clara Berry<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n “It’s pretty simple,” Apa tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview about his go-to summer activities<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n KJ Apa<\/a> is ready for some rest and relaxation with loved ones.<\/p>\n The actor, 29, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview that his summer 2026 plans are low-key and involve traveling with his young child.<\/p>\n “I’m excited about going back to New Zealand<\/a> to see my family, and I’m going to take my son with me,” Apa says.<\/p>\n He and his ex-girlfriend, Clara Berry<\/a>, welcomed their now 4-year-old, Sasha Vai Keneti, in September 2021.<\/p>\n “It’s pretty simple,” the Jimmy<\/em><\/a> star further explains of his go-to summer activities. “That’s what I’m looking forward to.”<\/p>\n Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/p>\n KJ Apa and son Sasha. Last year, while appearing on Andy Cohen<\/a>‘s SiriusXM radio show<\/a>, Apa opened up about becoming a father and how it helped him get sober<\/a>.<\/p>\n “A lot of things that I realized I had to button up, I buttoned up, and I realized that there’s no other way for me to do it,” he said at the time.<\/p>\n Describing his young son as “being a gift that saved my life,” Apa continued, “I go, ‘I love you so much more than me.’ I have to sacrifice all these things for you. And that’s what a good parent does.”<\/p>\n Sign up for From the Editor<\/a>, our free weekly newsletter from PEOPLE’s Editor-in-Chief, Charlotte Triggs.<\/p>\n Previously, Apa, who lends his voice to the recently released Audible Original The Summer Oath<\/em><\/a>, told PEOPLE that he had a bit of an identity crisis when Riverdale<\/em><\/a> wrapped up in 2023. (His former costar, Charles Melton<\/a>, is Sasha’s godfather.)<\/p>\n “When I finished that show, [I] went through a year of really having to re-gather who I was, like, re-remember who I was,” said the actor, who played Archie Andrews for all seven seasons on the CW series. “And I definitely had this crisis of identity with a whole lot of other things that I was going through.”<\/p>\n “[I was] being a dad, my son being one year old at the time, going through a breakup with his mom and navigating all of that while trying to pick up the pieces of who I was,” he added. “But I look back, and I’m so grateful for it because I asked for this life. I asked to be here, and this is what it all comes with. And I’m grateful for it. I’m glad I went through it.”<\/p>\nNEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n
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