“I don’t know anything about her!”: why Anthony Hopkins does not communicate with the only daughter of the Star

If you have never heard this name, it is not surprising: the daughter has not communicated with her father for many years. And unfortunately, now there are no prerequisites to think that they will suddenly reconcile. There was a period of temporary truce in their lives, when Abigail even starred with her father in the same film, but then the relationship deteriorated again.

Mother Abigail Petronella Barker was married to the actor from 1966 to 1972. In 1969, a daughter was born.

In 1973, Anthony married Jennifer Linton and lived with her for 29 years.

Abigail rarely saw her father: “I saw him maybe once a year. It was sad, but I tried not to think about it. “True, it turned out badly: 16-17 years is a terrible time, I constantly suffered because we had almost no contact with him. I was angry and sad.”

In the early 1990s, Hopkins managed to improve relations with his daughter, she even played small roles in two films. Neither of them will say why everything went wrong again. “It seems to me that relations should improve on both sides,” Abigail said in an interview with The Telegraph. “I don’t know if it was possible to do everything right.

The 82-year-old actor doesn’t seem to care much about his relationship with his only child. In an interview with the Radio Times in 2018, he noted that he did not know if he had grandchildren or where his daughter lived: “I don’t know anything about her life. People break up, it happens. Families fall apart, you have to live your own life. People make choices.” When Anthony responded that he reacted too coldly, he replied, “Yes, coldly. But life in general is a cold thing.

He could not clearly explain why he rarely saw his daughter as a child, but admitted in 2002: “I guess I’m too selfish. I wasn’t a good husband and father.”

One of the possible reasons is that he struggled with alcohol addiction for many years: “I still can’t believe that my life turned out like this. I should have died in Wales drunk or something.” This period fell on the 1970s, and his problems became one of the reasons for his divorce from Abigail’s mother.

He moved to Los Angeles in 1974 and his first wife and daughter remained in England.

Anthony Hopkins’ daughter became a jazz singer. “I was lonely as a child,” she said. “I felt good in the company of myself. Music meant a lot to me. I played the piano, but it was not my favorite instrument. My father was supposed to be a concert pianist and then became an actor. When I was seven, I brought to school guitar and everything changed.’

Abigail was able to make it without the help of her famous father: “I decided to do everything myself… I had to prove to myself that I was worth something. I go through life following my intuition and it helps me get through the hard times.”

Despite her difficult relationship with her father, Abigail was able to live without him.

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