Here are 11 celeb kids who are (or were) estranged from their famous parents: Content warning: This post mentions domestic abuse, child abuse, and drug use. In 2002, Voight publicly acknowledged his and Jolie's estrangement during an interview with 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 reach my daughter and get her help, and I have failed, and I'm sorry.
Really, I haven't come forward and addressed the serious mental problems she has spoken about so candidly to the press over the years, but I've tried behind the scenes in every way." At the time, he said he hadn't yet met his grandson, Maddox, whom Jolie and ex-husband, Billy Bob Thornton , had recently adopted. "That is the greatest pain," he said.
"I'd love to help out with the baby." Voight then slammed Jolie and Thornton's marriage, stating, "I never had the feeling that they were going to make it because of both of their serious problems, and they've both been very public about them, so I never really held out any hope." Jolie admitted in interviews that she was dealing with mental health issues but did not say that they were the cause of her rift with her father, nor did she confirm that Voight had reached out to help her.
Shortly after Voight's inflammatory interview, Angelina legally changed her last name from Voight to her middle name, Jolie. She also told the press, "I don't want to make public the reasons for my bad relationship with my father. I will only say that, like every child, [brother] Jamie and I would have loved to have had a warm and loving relationship with our dad.
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 my own child." While speaking about her film Dumplin' in 2018, Aniston told The 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 daughter reportedly reconciled in 2005, after Aniston's divorce from Brad Pitt, and stayed on speaking terms until Dow passed away in 2016. 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 didn't have a complete falling out until 2011, when Evans gave an interview in which he claimed that Adele's relationship troubles were caused by his failings as a father. He also alleged that Adele’s claims that she had cut off contact completely were untrue and designed to protect him from having to speak publicly about his alcoholism. Adele unleashed her fury through the press in a 2012 interview with Glamour, stating, "It makes me angry! To come back after ten years and be like, 'Maybe her problem with men comes down to me.
' It's like, 'F**k off! How dare you comment on my life?' It makes my blood boil. "There's consequences other than just getting a bit of f**king money that lasts you half a year. It blows my mind.
'I love her so much.' Really? Why are you telling me that through a newspaper? If I ever see him I will spit in his face." 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-nominated talk show host told Marie Claire, “It’s the hardest subject in my life." She continued, “I’ve never just been angry with her. I’ve always felt guilt and empathy and utter sensitivity.
But we can’t really be in each other's lives at this point.” However, by 2021, it seemed the Barrymores had forgiven each other. As Drew told Howard Stern, "I feel goodness toward my mom.
I feel empathy and understanding." Bill Hudson quickly fired back through an interview with The 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, vicious, premeditated attack. He is dead to me now.
As is Kate. I am mourning their loss even though they are still walking this earth." Although Kate's Instagram post was simply a tribute to Russell, with no jabs intended at their biological father, he maintained that her post "was an intimate shot and, as her father, I found it inappropriate and unsettling.
I'll leave it at that." The mother and son's legal battles have also made the headlines after Allman's wife, Marieangela King, claimed in 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, Cher told People in October of 2023 "that the rumor is not true" and declined to comment further. However, she did confirm that the family issues were related to her son's addiction battles. The "Believe" singer continued, “I’m not suffering from any problem that millions of people in the United States aren’t.
I’m a mother. This is my job — one way or another, to try to help my children. You do anything for your children.
Whenever you can help them, you just do it because that’s what being a mother is. But it’s joy, even with heartache — mostly, when you think of your children, you just smile and you love them, and you try to be there for them.” In a statement to 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 sober community and for Elijah’s sobriety...
What I am not ok with are establishments that exclude me (his wife) from being part of Elijah’s treatment and hopeful recovery,” The 37-year-old musician denied that she "enabled" her husband's addiction and further maintained that she had never “suffered from any form of substance abuse, mental health or addiction issues.”.
