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10 Celebrities Who Have Complicated Relationships with Their Children


Brad Pitt, Rory Feek, Elon Musk, Kate Gosselin, Tom Cruise and more are among celebrity parents who have complicated or estranged relationships with their kids.

Kate doubled down on her belief that Collin was mentally ill and told PEOPLE in an exclusive statement in 2023, "For the safety of myself, his brothers and sisters and for his own well-being, he was placed in a facility following years of outpatient treatment which proved insufficient for his needs." Earlier that year, the two had made headlines when amid divorce proceedings, Elijah’s wife Marieangela King alleged that Cher had hired four men to kidnap her son from a New York City hotel room in 2022. "After a custody hearing denied my father visitation rights, my mother declined to pursue criminal charges, despite findings of probable cause by the State of Connecticut – due to, in the words of the prosecutor, the fragility of the 'child victim,' " she wrote at the time.

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