Eric Roberts says that he 'couldn’t handle being a parent' to Emma Roberts: 'I’m still not a father figure.'
"I couldn’t handle the realities of an infant coming into my life, and I couldn’t handle being a parent!" Roberts writes in his new memoir."I had abandoned Kelly when Emma was just seven months old," Roberts wrote of his ex-partner Kelly Cunningham and daughter Emma Roberts in his new memoir. "We went through a lot, and saw me at my absolute worst — yet she stayed, for a time, though I’m sure she questioned whether or not she should.
Roberts attributed his lack of paternal fitness to his drug addiction. "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 actor said that Julia and his other sister, Lisa Roberts Gillan, wanted him to get his act together to support his partner and daughter. "Naturally, Julia and Lisa were distressed that I couldn’t keep our little family of three intact, that Kelly and Emma and I couldn’t make it as a family," he wrote. "My sisters were hoping that my having fathered a child that I loved with the woman I was with would maybe calm me down and make me more stable as a person.
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