{"id":830689,"date":"2026-07-29T06:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/830689\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T06:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:36:21","slug":"eric-roberts-painful-admission-years-before-skipping-daughter-emma-roberts-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/830689\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Roberts \u2018painful admission\u2019 years before skipping daughter Emma Robert\u2019s wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Roberts<\/a> spoke about his strained relationship with daughter Emma Roberts<\/a> years before missing her wedding<\/a> to actor Cody John<\/a> on Saturday. <\/p>\n

The 70-year-old\u00a0Dark Knight\u00a0star was asked about \u201cthe toughest time\u201d of his life during an October 2024 episode of the Inside of You<\/a> podcast. \u201cProbably the\u00a0loss of a relationship\u00a0with my daughter,\u201d he replied. <\/p>\n

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Eric Roberts said his relationship with daughter Emma Roberts is \u201cindefinable\u201d. \u00a0Getty\/Andreas Rentz\/Getty Images for The Summer Gala by Gala One<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s not a pain, there\u2019s a sadness for the most likely misunderstandings we\u2019ll have forever because we\u2019re human,\u201d the Oscar<\/a> nominee admitted at the time. <\/p>\n

The\u00a0Runaway Train\u00a0actor said he \u201cstarted accepting\u201d the sadness of their relationship when he became a grandpa. <\/p>\n

He revealed his granddaughter, aged five at the time, \u201clooks like Emma\u201d and \u201ctook a liking\u201d to the star. The young girl is one of several step-grandchildren Roberts shares with his wife, Eliza, from her previous marriage.<\/p>\n

\"Emma<\/p>\n

Eric was notably absent from 35-year-old daughter Emma\u2019s wedding to Cody John on Saturday.\u00a0Instagram\/@emmaroberts<\/p>\n

\u201cIt reminds me of what I didn\u2019t have,\u201d he admitted. \u201cSo that might be the most painful, personally.\u201d <\/p>\n

The actor, who was promoting his memoir on the show, then revealed he hadn\u2019t written much about their relationship because it was simply \u201cindefinable\u201d. <\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time Eric has spoken about his relationship, or lack of, with 35-year-old daughter Emma, famous for her roles in\u00a0American Horror Story,\u00a0We\u2019re the Millers\u00a0and\u00a0Scream 4.<\/p>\n

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The oscar nominee opened up about his relationship with his daughter on the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast.\u00a0YouTube\/@InsideOfYouPodcast<\/p>\n

Speaking on the\u00a0Really Famous with Kara Mayer Robinson\u00a0podcast in April 2026, Eric did, however, claim they were not estranged. <\/p>\n

He said his relationship with his daughter looked \u201ccomplicated through outside eyes \u2026 because they don\u2019t get any of it.\u201d <\/p>\n

He\u2019s also previously said to be \u201cproud\u201d of his daughter, who he welcomed in 1991 with actor and ex\u00a0Kelly Cunningham<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Emma<\/p>\n

Emma Roberts, who\u2019s been acting since age nine, is famously the niece of Julia Roberts. \u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

But, earlier this week Eric confirmed he did not attend<\/a> daughter Emma\u2019s wedding on Saturday, despite the ceremony being an A-list family affair.<\/p>\n

The actor said he \u201cloves\u201d his daughter, however, was notably absent from the nuptials that famous sister\u00a0Julia Roberts<\/a>\u00a0even attended. <\/p>\n

\u201cI love my daughter, always have, always will,\u201d said the\u00a0Oscar<\/a>\u00a0nominee as he addressed his absence in a statement to\u00a0Page Six<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Eric is a grandpa once again after the actress welcomed son Rhodes in December 2020.\u00a0Instagram\/@emmaroberts<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is perfectly wonderful for her to celebrate however she wants,\u00a0with whomever she wants.\u201d<\/p>\n

The day after Emma and Cody said \u2018I do\u2019 in their intimate Idaho wedding, Eric was spotted over 1,000 kilometres away from where his famous daughter tied the knot.<\/p>\n

Instead, the\u00a0actor was photographed leaving a Los Angeles-based gym.<\/p>\n

Emma and Cody tied the knot in a romantic ceremony, witnessed by their close family and friend at the groom\u2019s family estate, after four years of dating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Roberts spoke about his strained relationship with daughter Emma Roberts years before missing her wedding to actor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-830689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}