“ I ’ve never just been angry with her . I ’ve always felt guilt and empathy and utter sensitiveness . But we ca n’t really be in each other ’s life at this tip . ”
Family drama is nothing new to Hollywood, especially between parents and their kids. From ’90s tabloids to today’s social media posts, sometimes that drama becomes public information, and what most non-famous families would argue about on a group chat becomes a (sometimes years) long battle through the press.
Here are 11 celeb kids who are (or were) estranged from their famous parents:
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2.Pax Jolie-Pitt andBrad Pitt: After Angelina Jolie’sallegationsof abuse against ex-husband Brad Pitt surfaced in October of 2022, more light has been shed on the relationship between Pitt and his children. In particular, aposthis son, Pax Jolie-Pitt, made on his private social media account for Father’s Day in 2020 highlighted their particularly troublesome family dynamics.
3.Angelina JolieandJon Voight: Speaking of Angelina Jolie’s family, the actress and her father have also had a tense relationship through the years.
In 2002, Voight publicly acknowledged his and Jolie’s estrangement during aninterviewwith Access Hollywood in which he brought up that Jolie had “unspecified” mental health issues and pleaded with her fans and handlers to see that she received help.
He claimed he was " brokenhearted … because I ’ve been trying to pass my daughter and get her help , and I have fail , and I ’m grim . Really , I have n’t derive frontward and addressed the serious mental problem she has spoken about so candidly to the press over the years , but I ’ve try behind the scene in every fashion . "
At the time , he said he had n’t yet met his grandson , Maddox , whom Jolie and ex - husband , Billy Bob Thornton , had recently adopted . " That is the greatest painfulness , " he say . " I ’d have it away to help out with the baby . "
Voight then slammed Jolie and Thornton ’s marriage , stating , " I never had the feeling that they were go to make it because of both of their serious problem , and they ’ve both been very public about them , so I never really hold out any Leslie Townes Hope . "
Jolieadmittedin interviews that she was take with mental wellness issue but did not say that they were the case of her rift with her father , nor did she reassert that Voight had reached out to aid her .
Shortly after Voight’s inflammatory interview, Angelina legally changed her last name from Voight to her middle name, Jolie.
She also told the jam , " I do n’t desire to make public the reasons for my bad human relationship with my father . I will only say that , like every fry , [ sidekick ] Jamie and I would have loved to have had a warm and enjoy kinship with our pa . After all these years , I have determined that it is not healthy for me to be around my father , especially now that I am responsible for for my own child . "
In 2010, father and daughter reconciled, and Jolie stated that Voight had become a “valued grandpa” to her six children. However, it seems the duo’s relationship is once again on the rocks after Voight recentlycriticizedJolie’s views on the Israel-Hamas War.
4.Jennifer Aniston and her mother, Nancy Dow: In 1999, Dow released a memoir,From Mother and Daughter to Friends, detailing her tense relationship with her daughter.
While speaking about her filmDumplin’in 2018, Aniston toldThe Sunday Telegraph, “She [Dow] was a model, and she was all about presentation and what she looked like and what I looked like. I did not come out the model child she’d hoped for, and it was something that really resonated with me: this little girl just wanting to be seen and wanting to be loved by a mom who was too occupied with things that didn’t quite matter.”
However , the mother and girl reportedly reconciled in 2005 , after Aniston ’s divorcement from Brad Pitt , and stay put on speaking terms until Dow passed away in 2016 .
5.Adele and her father, Mark Evans: The “Hello” singer’s parents, Penny Adkins and Mark Evans, divorced when she was three years old. In interviews, Adele has reflected on how she often felt “let down” by her father as a child.
Adele claimed that the next time she saw her father was at her great-grandmother’s funeral, when she was 15 years old. She admitted, “He did apologize then but I was 15, I didn’t want to hear it then.”
The father and daughter did n’t have a unadulterated falling out until 2011 , when Evans gave aninterviewin which he claimed that Adele ’s relationship troubles were triggered by his failings as a Fatherhood . He also say that Adele ’s claims that she had cut off contact wholly were untrue and plan to protect him from having to speak publicly about his alcoholism .
Adele unleashed her fury through the crush in a 2012interviewwith Glamour , stating , " It makes me angry ! To derive back after ten years and be like , ' Maybe her problem with human come down to me . ' It ’s like , ' F**k off ! How dare you remark on my life ? ' It makes my line boil .
" There ’s consequences other than just getting a bit of f**king money that lasts you half a year . It squander my mind . ' I love her so much . ' Really ? Why are you telling me that through a newsprint ? If I ever see him I will spit in his face . "
In 2013, Evans was diagnosed with bowel cancer. He eventually succumbed to the disease in May 2021, but not before he and Adele reconciled.
6.Drew and Jaid Barrymore: Shortly after the success of Drew’s breakout role in 1982’sE.T., The Extra-Terrestrial, Jaidbegantaking her daughter, as young as 9 years old, to parties at the infamous Studio 54.
Drew became legally emancipated when she was 14 years old and severed ties with her mother at the time. She later said the experience was “the worst pain I’ve ever known…”
In 2014 , the Emmy - name talk show hosttoldMarie Claire , “ It ’s the hardest national in my liveliness . " She continued , “ I ’ve never just been angry with her . I ’ve always feel guiltiness and empathy and utter sensitiveness . But we ca n’t really be in each other ’s life history at this gunpoint . ”
However , by 2021 , it seemed the Barrymores had forgive each other . As Drew told Howard Stern , " I feel good toward my mom . I feel empathy and understanding . "
7.Oliver and Bill Hudson: On Father’s Day 2015, Oliver Hudson posted a throwback picture of himself, his sister Kate Hudson, and their biological father, Bill, with the caption “Happy Abandonment Day!”
Bill Hudson quickly fired back through aninterviewwithThe Daily Mail,stating, “I had five birth children but I now consider myself a father of three. I no longer recognize Oliver and Kate as my own. I would ask them to stop using the Hudson name…”
He continued , " They are no longer a part of my life . Oliver ’s Instagram post was a malicious , fell , premeditate attack . He is dead to me now . As is Kate . I am mourning their loss even though they are still walking this worldly concern . "
Although Kate ’s Instagram post was simply a tribute to Russell , with no jab stand for at their biological father , he maintained that her post " was an intimate scene and , as her father , I launch it incompatible and unsettling . I ’ll go away it at that . "
At the time, Bill stated he didn’t want to see his eldest children “ever again.” But, in a recentappearanceon CBS Sunday Morning, Kate revealed that her relationship with her father was “warming up.”
8.Tatum and Ryan O’Neal: The O’Neals made headlines for co-starring in the 1973 filmPaper Moon. At the 1974 Oscars, Tatum became the youngest person to ever win “Best Supporting Actress” for her role in the movie, and she shared in her 2004 autobiography,A Paper Life, that this was when her relationship with her father began to deteriorate.
The pair wereestrangedfor over two decades and only began to heal their relationship after the death of Ryan’s partner, Farrah Fawcett in 2009. Their reconciliation efforts were also documented in the reality series,Ryan and Tatum: The O’Neals.
9.Cher and Elijah Blue Allman: The relationship between the acclaimed pop icon and the son she shared with late rockstar Greg Allman has always been wrought with tension. In aninterviewfrom 2014, Elijah revealed that he didn’t believe his mother supported him during a near-fatal battle with Lyme disease, stating, “It was very hard for my mother to accept.”
The mother and son’s legal battles have also made the headlines after Allman’s wife, Marieangela King,claimedin court documents that in 2022, four men interrupted the couple in a New York hotel room while they were attempting to reconcile their marriage. The men removed Elijah from the hotel, and King alleged that one of the men told her that Cher had hired them.
In response to the abduction allegations , ChertoldPeoplein October of 2023 " that the hearsay is not true " and decline to point out further . However , she did confirm that the home proceeds were link to her son ’s addiction battle .
The " Believe " Isaac Bashevis Singer continued , “ I ’m not suffering from any problem that gazillion of the great unwashed in the United States are n’t . I ’m a mother . This is my job — one way or another , to attempt to serve my tyke . You do anything for your children . Whenever you may assist them , you just do it because that ’s what being a female parent is . But it ’s joy , even with heartache — mostly , when you think of your minor , you just smile and you have a go at it them , and you attempt to be there for them . ”
In January of this year, Cherfiledfor sole conservatorship of her youngest son, claiming that he is “substantially unable to manage his financial resources.”
In astatementto Page Six, King fired back, claiming that Cher has “historically excluded” her from making decisions regarding Allman’s care.
She stated , " I have always been a champion for the sombre community of interests and for Elijah ’s gravity … What I am not fine with are establishments that exclude me ( his wife ) from being part of Elijah ’s discourse and hopeful recuperation , ”
The 37 - year - erstwhile player refuse that she " enable " her hubby ’s addiction and further maintain that she had never “ suffered from any form of meaning abuse , mental health or addiction issues . ”
