After Revealing She Had “No Bond” With Her Daughter While Shooting “Yellowjackets,” Christina Ricci Explained Why It’s “Too Expensive” To Always Bring Her Kids On Work Trips

“If you're a series regular, you have to pay for everything… I can’t pay for four people, four flights, you know, and the rooms that you would need.”

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Ellen Durney
by Ellen Durney

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Christina Ricci just got candid about motherhood and money troubles.

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As you may know, Christina is mom to two-year-old Cleopatra with her husband Mark Hampton, and she also shares a nine-year-old son, Freddie, with her ex, James Heerdegen.

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Christina's career has been flourishing in recent years with hit shows like Wednesday and Yellowjackets. However, she’s revealed in a new interview that her busy schedule made it difficult to bond with her daughter — who was only two months old when she returned to work.

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“Last year, I was commuting back and forth to Vancouver for Yellowjackets,” she said on this week’s episode of the Let's Be Clear podcast with Shannen Doherty, admitting the lack of time she had with Cleo meant they couldn’t connect.

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“She didn't know me, you know? We had no bond. So that was very upsetting,” she said.

Christina explained during the interview that her kids “do not like it” when she’s away on work trips. Still, she said that taking them both with her isn’t always financially viable while working on shows where she’s expected to fund her travel personally.

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“You know, with TV, if you're a series regular, you have to pay for everything,” she said. “Every time I go up and down, I can’t pay for four people, four flights, you know, and the rooms that you would need and all… it’s just too expensive to travel with everybody all the time.”

In light of the problematic circumstances, Christina said she manages it all by trying to come home as much as possible while also attempting to incorporate her children into her schedule whenever she can.

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“I think really the thing that I learned, especially with my son, is mixing him into my work life. Why can't he come for the weekend to a convention and see what it's like?” she said, later explaining that her son joins her more regularly now that she’s figured out a way to make it work.

Christina has talked candidly in the past about facing financial difficulties, notably revealing back in 2022 that she even sold some of her Chanel bags to help fund her divorce from James Heerdegen. And now, in her recent interview, she recalled feeling lost during periods in her adult life when she was “really, really broke.”

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“You just have that thing of, I don't ever want to feel this way again,” she said. “It's a visceral feeling. I don't ever want to feel this helpless, because I think that's what not having a lot of money makes you feel like. It makes you feel very helpless.”

Fortunately, the Wednesday star said she’s in a better place today but acknowledged that it’s still super difficult to hold it together when you’re trying to support a career and a family simultaneously.

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“There's a ton of that pressure and it's hard, because you have to work to support your family but at the same time you working takes away time from your family,” she said. “So yeah, it's difficult but I'm in a really good place now. Again, I have a really supportive husband.”

You can listen to her full interview with Shannen Doherty here.

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