Right here’s hoping Fairly Lady isn’t a petty lady.
Eric Roberts is publicly apologizing for a daring declare he beforehand made about his sister and fellow actor Julia Roberts, as famous by a number of media stories this week.
Years in the past, the “Runaway Train” star had taken credit score for the profitable Hollywood careers of not solely his sibling, but additionally his daughter, Emma Roberts.
“If it wasn’t for me, there would be no Julia Roberts and no Emma Roberts as celebrities, as actresses, and I’m very proud of that,” Eric Roberts stated in a 2018 story in Self-importance Honest. “When Julia first came to New York, I went into [talent agency] William Morris and I said, ‘Which one of you is going to sign my sister Julia?’”
He added: “And I am so proud that everybody knows I was first, because I was first by a long shot. I was first to get Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations.”
It appears the character actor has since had a change of coronary heart, as he determined to apologize to his Oscar-winner sister — whom he calls “Julie” — in his new memoir, “Runaway Train: Or, the Story of My Life So Far.”
“Now one of the things I’d like to apologize for in this book is for publicly saying on more than one occasion, ‘If it wasn’t for me, there would be no Julia Roberts,’” Eric Roberts wrote. “That’s not only unfortunate, but it’s also untrue. And I hope Julie will accept this more public apology. It was an asinine thing to have said. I was proud of her, but it was pride turned on its head, to my own advantage.”
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He additionally known as her a “very driven woman,” and stated that “Someone would have plucked her out of the crowd in a place like New York without my help.”
However the “Dancing With the Stars” contestant nonetheless took some credit score for his sister’s profession, suggesting that she determined to pursue present enterprise after he had already turn into a profitable actor.
“If Julie had stayed in Atlanta, she’d probably have married a wealthy dude and lived a very different life,” Eric Roberts wrote, referencing her Georgia roots. “So I will take credit, once I had … moved to New York City, for telling my sisters, ‘Come on up, girls; the water’s fine.’ That’s when, it seems to me, she saw my life as a young actor in New York, and saw what I was doing for my livelihood, and she wanted to try it.”
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As for Emma Roberts, Eric Roberts lately gushed in regards to the “American Horror Story” actor throughout an interview with the “Still Here Hollywood” podcast.
“I am in love with my daughter’s work these days,” Eric Roberts stated earlier this yr.
“I can’t believe how great she’s become. I’m so proud of her I can’t see straight. Since her performance in [the 2023 film] ‘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.”
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