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Zoë Kravitz regrets moving away from mom Lisa Bonet to live with dad Lenny after their divorce: It was ‘very hurtful’
By BreAnna Bell,
19 hours ago
Zoë Kravitz said she now regrets making the “hurtful” choice to live with her rockstar dad, Lenny Kravitz , at age 11 following her parents’ divorce.
“The Batman” star reflected on her childhood in her latest Esquire cover story saying she feels she didn’t fully appreciate the lifestyle her mother, Lisa Bonet, laid out for her because of her strict parenting style.
“I think it was very hurtful that I moved away from her to be with my dad and my dad wasn’t even there,” she told the outlet.
“I just wish I had been able to appreciate what she was doing for me. She was so focused on preserving my innocence. My creativity. Because she knew what the world is — that you don’t get that back.”
Zoë Kravitz, pictured above with mom Lisa Bonet in Feb. 2016, said she regrets making the “hurtful” decision to move in with her dad Lenny at 11 years old. Kevin Mazur Zoë, pictured above as a baby with her famous parents in Sept. 1989, revealed she “hurt” her mother with her choice because she hadn’t been able to “appreciate what she was doing for me” at her young age. Getty Images
The “Cosby Show” star, 56, officially split from Lenny in 1991 — just four years after the two were married. They welcomed daughter Zoë in 1988. They officially divorced two years after their split.
Zoë lived with her mother for the first decade of her life, but later moved across the country to live with her father in Miami , who she’d previously only seen a few times a year.
The “Blink Twice” director recalled his visits being “this whirlwind of a completely different universe.”
Zoë lived with her mother for the first decade of her life following her parents’ split. FilmMagic, Inc
She and her father, pictured above, had a relationship where he visited her a few times out of the year prior to her move. WireImage
“And then I would go home to this really quiet, really simple life,” she shared.
Suddenly, she found she had a whole new freedom at 11 years old due to her dad’s minimal presence in the home — which led her to grow up faster than most children her age.
“It wasn’t that my dad didn’t care,” she said. “He just cared about different things.”
Zoë, seen above with her father, recalled spending much of her young life alone in her father’s home while living with him — which led her to mature faster than other kids her age. WireImage “It wasn’t that my dad didn’t care. He just cared about different things,” Zoë shared. FilmMagic, Inc
Zoë further noted how the novelty of her new freedom ultimately wore off when she learned the reality of the lifestyle.
“Just like it happens in the movies, it’s like, ‘Oh, you think this is perfect? You think this is great? Guess what comes with this,'” she said.
The “Dope” actress ultimately asked her father to move to New York — where she says she felt like she fit in.
“I wasn’t some genius actress. I felt safe,” she said of the move to the city.
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