BAD COP, GOOD COP

‘House of Cards’ Actor Spills About Major Parenting Regret

Robin Wright got candid about her parenting hardships in an interview with the “Sunday Times.”

Robin Wright, 65, has revealed one of her biggest parenting regrets. “I have a huge regret as a mother and have experienced the fallout of this regret for many years with my kids,” Wright told the Sunday Times. “I wasn’t hard enough on them.“ Her ex-husband, Sean Penn, was the bad cop to their two children, Dylan, 34, and Hopper Jack, 32. “He was gone so much of the time. He’d come back and be the policeman, and then he’d leave me with the residue,” the Forrest Gump star revealed. “Then I would soften the blow. We were both extremes. They didn’t get that grey area in the middle, which is stern, and that is what they needed.” Wright and Penn met in 1990 on the set of State of Grace, when Write was married to Dane Witherspoon and Penn was married to Madonna. The couple had an on-and-off relationship until they married in 1996. Wright and Penn separated in 2007, got back together, then divorced in 2010. They are now friends. Robin Wright married Clement Giraudet in 2018 and Penn married Leila George in 2020. They both divorced their partners in 2022.