Christina Ricci Says Ex-Husband James Heerdegen Didn’t ‘Help With Anything’ When Son Was a Baby
Christina Ricci claims ex-husband James Heerdegen left her high and dry when it came to raising their son, Freddie, as an infant. https://t.co/TcxKKsVr2F
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Ricci claims ex-husband left her high and dry when it came to raising their son, Freddie, as an infant.
“My son was never sleep-trained because I had to go back to work when he was 2 months old, and my husband at the time, [James Heerdegen], wouldn’t help me at all with anything. I had to do all the night stuff and get up and go to work for 14 hours and be on camera. So, the only way to do that was to lie with him, and he would breastfeed whenever he wanted and sleep with me. I had to have him in the bed with me just to get enough sleep and be able to work the next day. I was basically doing it all on my own, so that part is tough, but you just get through it. You just keep going. I repeat to myself all the time, ‘It’s temporary.’"
Following her split from Heerdegen, Ricci moved on with Mark Hampton. They welcomed a daughter, Cleopatra. Ricci explained why raising her second child has been an entirely different experience.
"Now I have a wonderful husband who does more. I went back to work when [my daughter] was 2 months old and shot Wednesday in Romania, and Mark did every single night, all night long. I just slept and went to work the next day. It made such a huge difference. It was so much easier this time around. You have to have a good, supportive partner. I would say - and this sounds really annoying and cloying and stupid - but I would say the first time I really fell in love in a healthy way is probably this marriage that I’m in now. I think a lot of my relationships in the past had a lot to do with unhealthy things that I was looking for.”
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