Julia Roberts, Eric Roberts’ Sibling Relationship: Timeline

An advanced relationship. Whereas Julia Roberts and her older brother, Eric Roberts, have a typical sibling bond now, that wasn’t at all times the case.

“Julia and I’ve at all times been advantageous,” the Darkish Knight actor revealed throughout a June 2022 look on the “Behind The Velvet Rope With David Yontef” podcast. “I feel years and years in the past, I used to be doing a press tour for some film … It was simply when Fairly Girl [had been] launched, and they also’re asking a bunch of questions on Julia. And I stated, ‘Hey, excuse me. Can we discuss me?’”

He continued: “Immediately … I maintain listening to about [these issues] I’ve with my sister that I don’t [actually] have with my sister. They’re simply popping up in every single place, and I’m requested about them as in the event that they’re actual points. [I’d say,] ‘Oh, I wasn’t conscious of that.’ … [It] blew up and blew up and turned all this stuff it wasn’t and [there was gossip that] we don’t agree on quite a lot of issues.”

Eric — who shares daughter Emma Roberts with ex Kelly Cunningham — went on to interrupt down their typical sibling dynamic.

“My sister and I, although, we’ve at all times talked, we’ve at all times bitched. I’ve at all times had enjoyable, [we’ve always] identified one another. Easy as that,” the Star 80 actor, who wed Eliza Roberts in August 1992, stated through the June 2022 podcast episode. “I like figuring out my sister. She’s a cool chick, my sister. … She’s doing quite a lot of stuff and … I don’t ignore it. I simply keep out of her hair with the press. That’s all. And she or he stays out of mine. I imply, truthfully, when you’re doing a film of your personal … and the press simply desires to speak about any member of your loved ones, it’s form of somewhat like, ‘Why?’”

Whereas Eric asserted their sibling bond is ok, he beforehand received candid on how his substance abuse struggles affected the twosome.

“I wouldn’t characterize it as a falling-out. I used to be loopy about my sisters. Cherished them, adored them,” Eric informed Self-importance Truthful in January 2018, referring to the Runaway Bride star and Lisa Roberts Gillian. “They had been treasured to me, and we had instances of nice closeness. All of us felt very protecting of one another, however the hardest individual to guard your self from is your self. … I used to be exhausting to be round: complainy, blamey, unable to take pleasure in enjoyment. Everybody in my world wanted a break typically, and that will need to have included Julia.”

Scroll under for a whole timeline of the sibling’s dynamic: