Heather Graham reveals why she shared a 30-year family rift

Heather Graham has explained why she went public with what she didn't talk to her parents about for 30 years.

The 52-year-old filmmaker previously told The Wall Street Journal in August, 'I stopped talking to my parents when I was 25, and now I'm estranged from them.'

'I mean, speaking in an interview is a little vulnerable,' she explained in a new interview with People.

'At the same time, I know there are a lot of people going through something like this, so I think I have to be honest about my life and not pretend everything is wonderful all the time.'

Revealing that she has no regrets about her decision to share the family rift with the world, she added, 'It doesn't matter what I am.'

She doesn't go into all the details in the article about why I don't talk to them, 'but I have great, wonderful friends. It was the luckiest thing in my life.

The 52-year-old filmmaker previously told the Wall Street Journal in August, 'I stopped talking to my parents when I was 25 and now I'm estranged from them'; Heather is pictured right with parents Jim and Joan and her sister Aimee

Chosen Family, the new film written, directed and starring Graham, is in theaters October 11th.

Speaking on social media site Letterbox, she spoke about feeling isolated in her professional and personal life.

In a teaser shared on Instagram this week, she explained, 'Maybe it's a theme I relate to in my life and in my work, feeling alienated, looking for your family.'

The Hangover star added, 'I definitely feel like there are people I've met in my life that I don't relate to.

“I can relate to that quest,” she said.

In her caption to her more than half a million followers, she wrote: 'I got to talk about Chosen Family and my whole life in this fantastic interview with @brianformo @letterboxd.'

Ahead of its release, the Hollywood vet has inserted in recent posts that 'The Chosen Family is in theaters and in demand October 11th.'

Julia Stiles also appears in the film, and the two spoke about the project with the SAG-AFTRA Foundation in September.

Graham's parents, Joan and Jim, were spotted in a Facebook post in 2023

The entertainer is busy promoting his family. Here she is photographed with Michael Rosenbaum after stopping by his podcast Inside of You

In her August interview with the WSJ, Heather revealed: 'Home and school were not happy places growing up.'

Talking about her father, she said, 'My father, James, was an FBI agent. He continued to tell me that the entertainment industry was evil and that Hollywood would claim my soul if I became an actress and appeared in anything with sexual content.

The blonde beauty continued, 'My mum Joan is a primary school teacher. But I never felt like talking to my parents because they were a generation that didn't believe in therapy or discussing personal matters.

Pointing to her mother, she says, 'To her credit, my mother supported my creativity and acting ambitions. It was mixed news because my father was strict against them and my mother didn't do much to protect me from him.