# Why don't Julia Roberts and Eric Roberts speak? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 29, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-julia-roberts-and-eric-roberts-speak/204499 "2003-09-29T16:28:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Breezy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@Breezy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breezy)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-julia-roberts-and-eric-roberts-speak/204499/1 "2003-09-29T16:28:13Z")
I have read in magazines, and on the boards that Julia Roberts and her brother Eric Roberts are estranged. How is it that they don’t talk, but Julie is ver close with her neice (his daughter)? Also, what is the feud, or problem even about. Has THAT ever been discussed? Hope I haven’t missed something obvious. haha I did a search, and found mention of the issue, but with out really explaining what it’s all about. ---
**Author:** ![Breezy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@Breezy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breezy)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-julia-roberts-and-eric-roberts-speak/204499/2 "2003-09-29T16:30:28Z")
Oh for Pete’s sake. It looks like a third grader typed that post. Julie = Julia ver = very Sorry for my horrible post!!! ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-julia-roberts-and-eric-roberts-speak/204499/3 "2003-09-29T18:32:12Z")
He’s jealous that she makes 50 times as much as he does per movie? ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-julia-roberts-and-eric-roberts-speak/204499/4 "2003-09-29T19:05:21Z")
I heard it had something to do with how he treated an ex (I know he dated Piper Laurie for a loooong time…go figure). ---
**Author:** ![Nanook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nanook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanook)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-julia-roberts-and-eric-roberts-speak/204499/5 "2003-09-29T22:38:14Z")
Her pretty. Him ugly. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@Mr\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-julia-roberts-and-eric-roberts-speak/204499/6 "2003-09-29T23:01:50Z")
I read in people magazine/entertainment weekly/US/whatever that he was shitty to his daughter and her mother when Emma was first born and that Julia bought Emma and her mother a home and supported them and essentially picked up Eric’s slack. Other stuff: Eric and Julia have very differing opinions on their parents. Eric hates mom, Julia loves her. I don’t even like Julia Roberts and I know this. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-julia-roberts-and-eric-roberts-speak/204499/7 "2003-09-29T23:08:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Breezy \* > Hope I haven’t missed something obvious. It all goes back to a tragic childhood incident involving watermelon, a wheelbarrow, a minister, and a yak. Sadly, neither of them has spoken since. ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-julia-roberts-and-eric-roberts-speak/204499/8 "2003-09-30T00:52:42Z")
You fogot about the Pope’s involvement in that whole mess. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-julia-roberts-and-eric-roberts-speak/204499/9 "2003-09-30T00:56:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nanook \* > \*\*Her pretty. Him ugly. \*\* [Him ugly?](http://mesapollons.free.fr/Images/qrst/Roberts/er14.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-julia-roberts-and-eric-roberts-speak/204499/10 "2003-09-30T01:07:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Walloon \* > \*\*[Him ugly?](http://mesapollons.free.fr/Images/qrst/Roberts/er14.jpg) \*\* [Her pretty?](http://www.mamut.com/homepages/Croatia/3/12/dessardo/julia-roberts-05-large.jpg) Hi-Ho Silver! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-julia-roberts-and-eric-roberts-speak/204499/11 "2003-09-30T14:43:07Z")
He’s totally fuckable. And a good actor. Anyone see him in Raggedy Man, with Sissy Spacek? I love that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-julia-roberts-and-eric-roberts-speak/204499/12 "2003-09-30T16:14:03Z")
He has also had some well publicized battles with drugs and alcohol. She is more clean living. ---
**Author:** ![j.c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@j.c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j.c)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-julia-roberts-and-eric-roberts-speak/204499/13 "2003-10-01T18:41:05Z")
WAG: She would rather not talk about the fact the he continued to use his influence to get her jobs after she was such a nightmare for directors in early films such as Mystic Pizza. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-julia-roberts-and-eric-roberts-speak/204499/14 "2003-10-01T18:53:34Z")
Why should they? Lots of siblings are not particularly close. I have an older brother and we talk about once a week. My younger brother and I only call each other at Christmas and on birthdays. Just because you are brother and sister doesn’t mean you have to get all kissy kissy Angelina Jolie on each other. By the way, I don’t think Warren Beatty and Shirley McClaine are all that close. Liza Minnelli and Lorna Luft are certainly not buddy-buddy. And I think the Jackson 5 family has had a few tiffs over the years as well… ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-julia-roberts-and-eric-roberts-speak/204499/15 "2003-10-01T19:03:38Z")
I think this is beyond “tiff”. Way beyond. ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-julia-roberts-and-eric-roberts-speak/204499/16 "2003-10-01T21:24:25Z")
Both of them seem to have inherited genes that make them somewhat attractive and butt ugly at the same time…thank the Lord they were never welded with Lyle Lovett’s DNA! ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-julia-roberts-and-eric-roberts-speak/204499/17 "2003-10-01T21:27:46Z")
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine _are_ all that close. The love he has for his older sister is evident whenever he has spoken of her. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-julia-roberts-and-eric-roberts-speak/204499/18 "2003-10-01T21:38:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DMark \* > \*\*Lots of siblings are not particularly close. > > I have an older brother and we talk about once a week. > My younger brother and I only call each other at Christmas and on birthdays. > \*\* Hell yeah. I don’t talk to my older sister even that often. But if Eric really is a deadbeat dad, can you blame Julia for not wanting to talk to him? ---
**Author:** ![Rainbowthief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4bbf92/32.png) [@Rainbowthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rainbowthief)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-julia-roberts-and-eric-roberts-speak/204499/19 "2003-10-02T05:49:06Z")
It breaks my heart that those Roberts kids aren’t speaking to each other. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-julia-roberts-and-eric-roberts-speak/204499/20 "2003-10-02T09:38:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Alessan \* > \*\*He’s jealous that she makes 50 times as much as he does per movie? \*\* Only 50? 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-julia-roberts-and-eric-roberts-speak/204499.md?page=2)