Christina Ricci has opened up about the strain her job put on her relationship with her daughter Cleopatra.
The 44-year-old actress was a guest on Shannen Doherty’s podcast Let’s be clear and shared that being away filming Yellowjackets negatively affected her dynamic with her little two-year-old girl.
“Last year I was commuting back and forth to Vancouver for Yellowjackets. She didn’t know me. We had no connection. So that was very disturbing,” she revealed.
The Casper star shares the toddler with husband Mark Hampton.
She is also mother of nine-year-old son Freddie, whom she shares with ex-husband James Heerdegen.
Christina Ricci has opened up about the strain her job put on her relationship with her daughter Cleopatra; pictured in January at the Golden Globes
The 44-year-old actress was a guest on Shannen Doherty’s podcast Let’s Be Clear and opened up about how being away to film Yellowjackets negatively affected her dynamic with her little girl, two
Ricci stars in the hit Showtime series; seen in a still from the show
The mother of two continued: “My kids don’t like it when I travel. When I’m away, I try to take my son with me as much as possible.’
And she explained, “When you’re a series regular, you have to pay for everything, so I can’t… every time I go up and down, I can’t pay for four people, four flights, you know. , and the rooms you need and all that… it’s just too expensive to travel with everyone all the time.”
The actress emphasized that she is doing her best to balance her two biggest responsibilities.
“I try to come back as often as possible,” the Wednesday star noted. “I think what I learned, especially from my son, integrated him into my work life.
“Why can’t he come to a conference for a weekend and see what it’s like?”
Christina reflected on how different traveling with her son was when he was younger.
“There are certain things, like my son never had sleep training because I had to go back to work when he was two months old,” she recalls.
She added that her ex-husband “didn’t want to help me with anything at all,” so she resorted to letting Freddie sleep in her bed “just to get enough sleep to work the next day.”
The Casper star shares her daughter with husband Mark Hampton. She is also mother of nine-year-old son Freddie, whom she shares with ex-husband James Heerdegen
The entertainer shared a photo of her newborn baby, husband and son on Christmas Day 2021
Ricci’s husband shared a photo of his wife with their daughter shortly after giving birth
With her second child, Ricci emphasized that it was “so much easier” going back to work with a newborn with her new husband.
‘I went to film in Romania on Wednesday when she was two months old, and Mark did that every night all night long.
“Like I just slept and worked the next day, and it made such a big difference. It was so much easier this time.
“You know, you need to have a good supportive partner.”
