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Kristin Cavallari made the "best decision" when she cut her father off her life a few years ago.
TV celebrity told the TV character: "I mean, honestly, it may sound messy for some people, but it's the best decision I've made People Magazine. "Released such a weight from me. There wasn't a day I missed him. I don't know it was two or three years ago, but I mean, I'm an adult, let's say I'm 35 years old (when I decided). It's 35 years of construction."
"This is something I've wanted to do for a long time," Cavallari said.
Kristin Cavallari
Jennifer Aniston, Kristin Cavallari and Mariah Carey are just a handful of celebrities who are nervous about their relationship with their parents. (Getty Image)
This tense relationship between father and daughter is one of many in Hollywood.
Cavallari isn't the first celebrity to openly discuss her parents' disconnection. Here are a few stars who have a candid relationship with their parents.
Family Hate: Jennifer Aniston, Matthew McConaughey, Drew Barrymore in an annoying battle with the mother public
Mariah Carey wrote in her 2020 memoir about her relationship with her mother. (Getty Image)
Mariah Carey has a "complex" relationship with her late mother Patricia.
In her 2020 memoir, Mariah Carey, Carey mentioned Patricia in her opening speech, Reading, “My mother Pat, my mother, I do believe, I do believe that she did do her best. I will love you forever.”
Carey said their relationship was “a story of betrayal, beauty, abandonment, sacrifice and survival.”
Mariah Carey says her mother's jealousy has "lived with me"
"I have been freed from the bondage many times, but the cloud of sadness of my doubts always hangs on me, not only because of my mother, but also because of our complex journey together."
Carey's mother passed away in August 2024. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
"It brought me a lot of pain and confusion. Time shows that there is no benefit in trying to protect people who never tried to protect me. Time and maternity finally gave me the courage to be honest with people my mother has been."
Carey said it was "painful" to end the relationship with her mother, adding that "there is no "clever" way to let go of my mother, but our relationship is not simple at all."''
She added: "Like many aspects of my life, my journey with my mother is full of ambivalent and competitive reality. It's never black and white - it's a rainbow of the whole emotion. Our relationship is a barbed line of pride, pain, shame, gratitude, jealousy, admiration and disappointment. A complex love makes my heart in my mother's heart."
Carey's mother died in August.
Angelina Jolie has a tough relationship with her father, Jon Voight. (James Devaney/GC image)
Angelina Jolie Her father, Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight, has had a turbulent relationship since the actress was a child.
Jolie was raised primarily by her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who occasionally saw her father when she grew up.
After a brief settlement, while working together on "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider", the two again took a separate approach in 2002, when Voight told "Access Hollywood" that she needed help with "mental issues." This infuriated Julie in particular because she felt it would interfere with the adoption of her son Maddox.
Angelina Jolie has issued a statement saying she does not want to "openly cause of the bad relationship with her father." (Getty Image)
"I don't want to publicly make the reasons for having a bad relationship with my father," a statement at the time, she told Access Hollywood. "I just say that, like every child, (brother) Jamie and I would love to have a passionate and loving relationship with our father. Over the years, I've been sure it's not healthy for me to be with my father, especially now that I'm responsible for my own children."
The two settled for a few years in 2010, and then formed another alliance in 2017 after Julie divorced Brad Pitt. She told the “Awards” podcast that she and Voight “get each other through grandchildren” at the time, even though they still sometimes get bumps on the road, through art (they) are able to speak, calling it “universal language.”
Jennifer Aniston describes her mom as “critical.” (Steve Granitz/Wireimage/Getty Images)
In 1999, Nancy Dow, the mother of Jennifer Aniston, released a book about reading from mother and daughter to friend.
In this book, Dow details her broken relationship with her daughter at that time. The release of the book led to an alienation between Aniston and Dow.
“I never thought my mom didn’t know my husband,” Aniston mentioned Brad Pitt in a 2004 interview with the Associated Press.
In 2015, Aniston described her mom as “very critical” of her.
Jennifer Aniston and her mom were speaking before Dow died in 2016. (Michael Buckner)
She told the Hollywood Reporter in 2015: "She's very critical. She's very critical of me. Because she's a model, she's beautiful and amazing. I'm not. I've never.
Aniston also said she found her mother “ruthless,” adding: “She would catch the resentment I just found out about this little.”
“We are all good,” noted the “friend” alum at the time.
The mother-daughter duo re-spoken before Dow died in 2016.
Tori Spelling's relationship with her parents has been complicated for years. (Getty Image)
After an extramarital affair with Dean McDermott, Tory Spelling’s relationship with her father Aaron Spelling changed dramatically. Her parents disagree.
Tori reconciled with her father before her death in June 2006, but her relationship with her mother's candy spelling became sour after Aaron's death.
In the next few years, the two will attack each other through media remarks, Candy once said that Aaron's death was decided not to talk to him.
Tori Spelling's father, Aaron Spelling, died in 2006. (Getty Image)
"My daughter decided one day that she wasn't talking to my husband, myself and my son, and that's what the last or five years lasted," Candy told Kellogg Krew of 94.7 WMAS-FM in 2009.
Fast forward to 2022 and their relationship seems to have gotten better, Tori told Jeff Lewis in his Sirius XM performance, despite their "good relationships...like the next level right now."
Drew Barrymore has been in a tense relationship with mom Jaid for years. (Nina Westervelt/Variety/Getty Images)
Drew Barrymore has been candid about her relationship with her estranged mother, Jaid Barrymore, who has been financially supportive to this day.
"All of their moms are gone, my moms haven't," Barrymore told McCudy and Brooke Shields's Condor in an interview published in 2023. "I thought, 'Well, I don't have that luxury.' But I can't wait. I don't want to live in a state where I want someone to live earlier than them so that I can grow. I actually hope she is happy, growing and healthy. But, despite her being on this planet, I have to grow. ”
Barrymore's interview comments shortly after online, the actress Go to Instagram Clarify what she means.
"You know, for all the tabloids, I've been in my life since I was 13," Barrymore said on an Instagram video at the time. "I never said I wish my mom died. How dare you put those words in my mouth."
"I'm vulnerable and trying to find a very difficult, painful relationship while acknowledging that it's hard to do this when my parents are still alive, and for those who have to figure it out in real time, there's no way to wait for time like they did in that era. It's not that my parents died."
Janelle Ash and Lori Bashian of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.