Anthony Hopkins has opened up about his “painful” 20-year estrangement from his daughter, Abigail.
The Oscar-winner is about to release a new memoir, called We Did Ok, Kid, in which he addresses his relationship with Abigail, whom he shares with first wife
Petronella Barker.
In a new interview with The New York Times, he touched upon the estrangement, revealing that his wife Stella had attempted to contact her to no avail.
“My wife, Stella, sent an invitation to come and see us,” Hopkins recalled. “Not a word of response. So I think, OK, fine. I wish her well, but I’m not going to waste blood over that.
“If you want to waste your life being in resentment, fine, go ahead. It’s not in my ken. I could carry resentment over the past, but that’s death. You’re not living. You have to acknowledge one thing: that we are imperfect. We’re not saints. We’re all sinners and saints or whatever we are. We do the best we can. Life is painful.”
He continued: “Sometimes people get hurt. Sometimes we get hurt. But you can’t live like that. You have to say, Get over it. And if you can’t get over it, fine, good luck to you. I have no judgment. But I did what I could. So that’s it. That’s all I want to say.”
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Hopkins then refused to answer whether he hopes Abigail reads his memoir, saying he would like to move the conversation on as he doesn’t “want to hurt her”.
Speaking back in 2006 to The Telegraph, Abigail said she would be open to reconciling with her father.
“I don’t know how I would feel about it,” she admitted. “We have never really been close. We’ve never discussed big life issues. Because, well, our relationship was always so sporadic. I’ve never felt I could discuss those sort of things with him.”
Earlier this year, she revealed in an Instagram post that she was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2020, though is now in remission.
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