Mischa Barton
The actress talks about her “unhealthy” relationship with her mother
Nuala Quinn-Barton and Mischa Barton
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For a long time, Nuala Quinn-Barton was the manager of her famous daughter Mischa Barton. Today, the “OC, California” star looks back on his “unhealthy” relationship with her and finds clear words about family.
Mischa Barton, 38, speaks more openly than ever about her complicated relationship with her mother. She has been an actress in front of the camera since she was a child and trusted her mother as her manager. After many years, however, she separated from Nuala Quinn-Barton, 71, – and apparently not just professionally.
Mischa Barton: Relationship with her mother was “not healthy”
“It just wasn’t healthy,” she explains in a recent episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. “I’ve really learned to prioritize my chosen family and the people who are truly there for me. I no longer rely on one particular family member. This is what I’ve learned to be happy.”
The 38-year-old believes family relationships can be “the most toxic” because of the feeling of having to be loyal to them. “You feel like you can say or do whatever you want to someone because you’re related. And I found that the hardest thing for me was that [Beziehungen] really understand,” said Mischa Barton, who played the role of Marissa Cooper in three seasons of the US hit series “OC, California”.
The actress is now “completely independent”
“I’m completely independent now and doing everything for myself, and that led to my sobriety and my happiness, and I had to watch other people break down, and that was hard to watch,” she explains. “But I’m just grateful that I found the people in my life who are constantly there for me. … Unfortunately, I also had to lose a lot of family members along the way.”
Mischa Barton, who celebrated her international breakthrough with “OC, California” in 2003, sued her mother in 2015, claiming that she withheld money from her and exploited her fame. The lawsuit arose from “the tragic story of a greedy stage mother who posed as a talent manager and, instead of acting in the best interests of her daughter/client, schemed to defraud her unsuspecting victim,” Barton’s attorney Alex Weingarten told Us Weekly at the time “. She “skimmed her daughter’s hard-earned money” despite having “absolutely no experience or training” as a talent manager. When asked by The Hollywood Reporter, Nuala Quinn-Barton described the allegations as “false and defamatory” and the lawsuit was dismissed in 2016.
Sources used: Spotify/”Call Her Daddy”, usmagazine.com