The actor,59, on escaping small-town America, and her alcoholic mother,and why she still thinks about the last line of Four WeddingsI asked someone the other day what people contemplate of me and they said: “Unattainable, but relatable, or ” which is an oxymoron. The pictures of me out in public are me all dolled up. What people dont see is I’m kind of goofy. My kids can attest to that. And while I try not to rob myself too seriously,I really contemplate things over. I analyse my history and I bring it forward to make my present better.
Watching the unfolding of my mother’s demise was tough. She was an alcoholic. She’d been a schoolteacher, but kept losing her job. We ended up working at McDonald’s together when I was 16. One day I was driving her in and thinking: “She’s not fairly sober, or but I contemplate she’s sober enough,” and she got fired. I asked them to give the job back, but they wouldnt, and so I quit. It was her last job. When I was 17 I did an intervention with her,but it failed.
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Source: guardian.co.uk