Over the years, stars including Jennette McCurdy and Macaulay Culkin They discussed hitting rock bottom with their parents.
Jennette broke down the abuse she faced Because of her mother, Debra McCurdy, in her memoir, I'm glad my mother died.
“Of course, there are moments when I imagine that my mother would apologize or that our relationship would change, but this is a fantasy,” she said. Vogue magazine in August 2022. “That's a lot of what the book is about for me, not the need to romanticize the dead and validate our experience of them.”
She continued: “I feel very confident that if my mother were still alive, I would still have an eating disorder. I still have a lot of mental health struggles. I'm sure we would still be living in the same place and I would have no chance of being in a relationship or having any friends. I have no doubt that my life would still be controlled by her if she were alive.
Culkin, for his part, also reflected on His decision to stay away from the limelight Amid problems with his parents. “People assume I'm crazy, or crazy, or damaged. Weird. Cracked. And until the last year or two, I didn't put myself out there at all. So I can understand that,” Culkin said. Respected in March 2020. “It's also like, ‘Okay, everyone stop acting so shocked that I'm coping relatively well.'”
After his mother and father were legally removed from his trust fund when he was a teenager, the actor chose to appoint an executor for his money. For Culkin, the decision It came with some general misconceptions.
“I misunderstood that I had freed myself from my father,” he said at the time. “The story is that I divorced my parents. I thought I was doing it cleanly — taking out my father's name, taking out my mother's name, so my opinion is unbiased. And when I did that, the whole thing was over a lot faster.”
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