Eric Roberts speaks about ‘loss of relationship’ with daughter Emma Roberts

Eric Roberts has opened up about his strained relationship with his daughter, Emma Roberts.

While talking about his new memoir, “Runaway Train: Or the Story of My Life So Far,” during the Tuesday, Oct. 22 episode of the “Inside you‘podcast with Michael RosenbaumEric, 68, was asked about the toughest time of his life.

The actor, who has discussed his relationship with Emma, ​​33, in his new book, responded: “Probably the loss of my relationship with my daughter.”

When Rosenbaum, 52, delved further into the topic, Eric arrived, welcoming Emma with ex Kelly Cunningham in 1991, clarified his feelings.

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“There is no pain, there is sadness because of the most likely misunderstanding that we will have forever because we are human,” says Eric, who was eliminated as a contestant in season 33 of the series. Dancing with the stars said on October 8.

Rosenbaum also asked Eric if the topic of his relationship with Emma is a “major chapter” in Eric’s memoir, published on September 18. “It should be,” Eric replied. “The problem is that it’s indefinable, so I’ll let you be the judge of that.”

In the book, per Entertainment weeklyEric wrote, “I loved my baby daughter with the strength of Hercules, despite my own weaknesses. However, I couldn’t deal with the reality of a baby coming into my life, and I couldn’t handle parenthood! I’m still not a father figure. Emma, ​​on the other hand, certainly knows what that role is – now an adult and a mother herself. She is that person for her first child, Rhodes.

The section continues, “I never saw myself as someone who deserved to have physical custody of Emma, ​​not in a million years. We both knew better than that. Kelly never claimed that I was trying to get physical custody of Emma. There wasn’t really a custody battle. I am very happy that I can now put this right.”

The podcast conversation also focused on how Eric’s outlook on life changed after the arrival of the grandchildren he shares with his wife. Eliza Roberts. “Especially the five-year-old, she was the first and she was a girl, and… very vulnerable to me and [she] really liked me at the age of two, two-and-a-half years old,” Eric said, referring to one of the two children of whom he is a grandfather through marriage. ‘She looks like Emma too…same color. It reminds me of what I didn’t have. That is perhaps the most painful personally. Maybe.”

Eric is also the grandfather of Emma’s son Rhodes, 3, who she shares with her ex Garrett Hedlund.

Eric remained tight-lipped as he discussed his memoir We weekly right after his DWTS performance on September 24, unable to tell if his family, including sister Julia Robertshave read the book.

“I’ll let you ask them,” he said Us at the time.

Eric’s memoir explores his struggles with addiction and his relationship with Julia, 56. During a September 25 interview on News Nation Immediately after the book’s release, Eric noted that he had not spoken to Julia “in a week” due to his travel commitments to DWTS.

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When asked if he had “regular” communication with Julia – and what Eric expected her thoughts to be after reading the book – Eric provided no details. “You should ask her that, friend,” he said. “If you want her opinion, ask her opinion. What you need to understand is [that] my sister and my daughter want to speak for themselves. So I would be in violation.”

Eric’s book contains text criticizing Julia’s critically acclaimed performance in 1989 Steel Magnolias. “Julia was good at it Mystical pizzagreat inside Beautiful womanbut not so much in it Steel Magnoliasin my opinion, even though it earned Julia her first Academy Award nomination,” Eric wrote per Entertainment weekly.