Accepting his Golden Globes in January 2017, Gosling said, "I want to properly thank one person and say that when I was singing and dancing and playing the piano, and on a movie I had It was the best experience ever." Lead Actor in a Musical or Comedy for La La Land, "My lady was raising our daughter, our second pregnant and trying to help her brother fight cancer.
"If he hadn't taken it all so that I could have this experience, it surely would have been someone other than me today—so," she looked intently into the camera, "sweetheart, thank you. To my daughters, Amada and Esmeralda , I love you.” (And then he dedicated his award to the memory of Eva's brother, Juan Carlos Mendez Jr., who died 12 days before Amada's birth in April 2016.)
For the moment, it was an unprecedented glimpse behind closed doors for Gosling, who, since meeting with Mendes, prefers to talk about literally anything besides his personal life in interviews. When asked about Christmas gifts for Mendes and the kids in 2016 on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Gosling charmingly said that he wanted to get a new Roomba to help out his existing Roomba, because he felt so bad. That the first was always tirelessly cleaning.