Eric Roberts is aware of he may’ve been a greater father to daughter Emma Roberts.
The 68-year-old actor spread out about his difficult dating with Emma, 33, in his newly-released memoir, “Runaway Train: Or the Story of My Life So Far.”
“I loved my little daughter with the strength of Hercules, despite my own weaknesses,” he wrote, in line with Entertainment Weekly. “However, I couldn’t handle the realities of an infant coming into my life, and I couldn’t handle being a parent!”
Eric, who stocks Emma along with his ex Kelly Cunningham, admitted that he’s “still not a father figure.”
“Emma, on the other hand, certainly knows what that role is — now grown up and a mom herself,” he mentioned. “She’s that person to her first child, Rhodes.”
Emma was a mum or dad in Dec. 2020 when she gave start to her and Garrett Hedlund’s son Rhodes. The previous couple split in 2022.
In his memoir, Eric seemed again on his choice to “abandon” Cunningham when Emma used to be simplest 7 months aging.
“We went through a lot, and [Cunningham] saw me at my absolute worst — yet she stayed, for a time, though I’m sure she questioned whether or not she should,” he recalled. “We both wanted a child — maybe I did more than she — but we both wanted to become parents.”
“The pregnancy was very exciting,” Eric persisted. “I fell madly in love with Emma the first minute I saw her.”
However Eric famous that his struggles with cocaine habit on the week resulted in his lack of ability to be a mum or dad to Emma.
“The biggest consequence of my drug use was losing Emma,” he wrote. “I was still impossibly coked up when she was born, which explains everything.”
The “Dancing with the Stars” Season 33 contestant were given into prison bother because of his habit within the Nineteen Eighties. He were given sober in 1995, 4 years later Emma used to be born, later attending court-ordered rehab for 18 months.
Eric spread out in regards to the classes he discovered from his moment habit struggle in a contemporary interview on “Today.”
“Once you’re through it, you don’t have to be punished. You don’t have to punish yourself,” he shared. “You can come through it and be fine about it and share your experience. You have to be a good example — and the only way to be a good example is to get through being a casualty. And it’s a bit of a trick because we have drug addicts who are casualties. We have to fight it everyday.”
He additionally said his crowd participants — together with his well-known sister, Julia Roberts — have been “alienated” through his habit.
“The family, I owe them a lot because I love them. I owe them a lot because they love me.”
Previous this 12 months, Eric mentioned at the “Still Here Hollywood” podcast that he’s “not supposed” to speak about Emma or Julia, 56.
He later proceeded to celebrate Emma and her performing chops.
“I am in love with my daughter’s work these days,” Eric shared in regards to the “American Horror Story” actress. “Like, I can’t believe how great she’s become.”
“I’m so proud of her I can’t see straight,” he persisted. “Since her performance in ‘Maybe I Do’ until right now, she overwhelms me with pride and just, ‘Oh my God, here she goes again.’ And I’m just so happy to be her dad, because she’s kicking ass. And I’m so proud.”
