Julia Roberts is ‘raging all over again’ over Brother’s tell-all memoir
October 11, 2024, published at 9:00 PM ET
The already frosty relationship between Julia Roberts and her big brother, Erikhas hit an iceberg as the 68-year-old ‘Dark Knight’ actor bashes his sister’s acting skills in his new memoir.
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While he apologized for a 2018 interview in which he took credit for Julia’s stardom — and admitted he made it up — he lambasted her performance in the 1989 film. Steel Magnoliaswhich earned Julia her first Academy Awards nod.
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‘Julia was good at it Mystical pizzagreat inside Beautiful womanbut not much in it Steel Magnoliasin my opinion,” wrote Eric, an Oscar-nominated actor.
“I don’t want to sound like a talking actor, or a jealous sibling, but I don’t think her performance in that movie helps.”
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The often troubled Eric – Julia froze him out of her life for 20 years before reaching an easy truce in 2004 – also tells bizarre stories about Julia, including the whispered rumor that the siblings shared an incestuous relationship.
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The friend dished: “Julia is twelve years younger than Eric and he had already left home when she was in second grade.
‘She says Eric actually knows very little about her, and that he used her life to help sell his book is inexcusable – but she won’t tell him that.