Christina Ricci reveals she escaped from 'physically violent' and 'failed cult leader' father thanks to childhood stardom

Christina Ricci revealed that uncovering fame arsenic a kid prima helped her flight from her 'failed cult leader' father.

The Addams Family actress, 44, opened up astir her past and her begetter Ralph Ricci, with whom she is present estranged, portion talking to Demi Lovato for the caller Hulu documentary, Child Star.

'I had a precise chaotic home,' she told the co-director and prima of the bid astir her unconventional upbringing. 

'My begetter was a failed cult leader,' Ricci admitted. 'And truthful helium had each that aforesaid benignant of, like, truly brainsick narcissism that goes on with idiosyncratic wanting to tally a cult.'

The Yellowjackets prima — who listed her gorgeous Hollywood Home for $2 million over the summertime — besides said her dada was 'very physically violent.' 

'There was ne'er immoderate bid successful my house,' she recalled. 

During that time, however, she said she was capable to 'find bid connected set,' which was a nonstop opposition to her location life.

When she was moving connected set, Ricci said she felt safe. 

'I knew thing wholly insane was astir to happen,' she said astir erstwhile she began moving arsenic a kid actor.

'Nobody was gonna get truly huffy and unreal they were gonna thrust the car into a wall,' she said. 'There was this refuge of affectional safety.' 

Ricci was calved successful Santa Monica, California and grew up arsenic the youngest of four, alongside her siblings Pia, Rafael and Dante, successful New Jersey. 

Ricci and her siblings were raised by their father, a primal shriek therapist-turned-lawyer, and their parent Sarah Ricci, a model-turned-realtor-turned-stage mom. 

Their parents divorced erstwhile she was 13, close aft she filmed Addams Family Values.

Many years later, she and her begetter ended up becoming estranged, she told The Guardian in 2000. 

Ricci, who was property 20 astatine the time, said that she hadn't been successful interaction with her begetter for astir 5 years since she was a teenager.

'I cognize it sounds cold, but it was 1 of the archetypal things I ever did successful my beingness — to instrumentality attraction of myself,' she said. 'Decide that lone radical who merit it tin beryllium successful my life.' 

In the aforesaid interview, she besides spoke astir however the abnormal satellite of Hollywood normalized her and spoke astir her turbulent narration with her father. 

She said that helium was 'a precise paranoid man' who taught them that 'there is nary specified happening arsenic selflessness, nary 1 ever truly likes you, radical are lone retired for themselves.'

Ricci made her movie debut astatine the property of 9 successful Mermaids successful 1990 and portrayed Cher's onscreen girl and Winona Ryder's sister.

The pursuing year, she landed her breakout relation arsenic Wednesday Addams successful The Addams Family (1991) and its sequel, Addams Family Values (1993). 

She went connected to prima successful Casper arsenic good arsenic Now and Then successful 1995, which cemented her presumption arsenic a kid star.