Christina Ricci revealed the dark reason her movie career is so meaningful to her. Fresh off getting her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the 45-year-old Yellowjackets star said that she felt “safest” as a kid in front of a film camera. “I’ve always felt really at ease and safe in a way that I don’t feel in life,” she told Variety in a new interview. “The film industry, it sort of rescued me from a childhood that was not very nice and a family that was not very safe. So to be able to escape and do this thing where I was totally safe when I was getting validation from adults, and it was based on a skill that I had that was special, I think really, really saved me.” Ricci starred in her first movie Mermaids opposite Cher and Winona Ryder as a nine-year-old in 1990. She has been outspoken about her parents’ divorce when she was a pre-teen, and her hard relationship with her father Ralph Ricci, who she’s accused of being a “failed cult leader.”
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