Chris Pratt ‘Cried’ When People Thought He Made a Dig at Ex-Wife Anna Faris: ‘My Son Is Gonna Read That’
28.06.2022 - 18:49
/ usmagazine.com
Firing back. Chris Pratt declared it was “f–ked up” that people interpreted his words about wife Katherine Schwarzenegger as a dig at his ex-wife, Anna Faris.
“[Ignoring Twitter comments] a lesson I’ve learned. It’s not a lesson that my son has learned yet,” the Parks and Recreation alum, 43, confessed in an interview with Men’s Health that was published on Tuesday, June 28. Pratt then opened up about the backlash he received for a November 2021 Instagram post, in which he gushed about Schwarzenegger, 32, and called her his “greatest treasure.”
“I said something like, ‘Find someone who looks at you the way my wife looks at me.’ And then I gave her some s–t in the thing and said, ‘But I love you. I’m so thankful for my wife — she gave me a beautiful, healthy daughter,'” the Jurassic World actor recalled. “And then a bunch of articles came out and said, ‘That’s so cringeworthy. I can’t believe Chris Pratt would thank her for a healthy daughter when his first child was born premature. That’s such a dig at his ex-wife.’”
After seeing the response to his post, Pratt was worried about the impact it could have on his 9-year-old son, Jack, whom he shares with Faris, 45. “That is f–ked up. My son’s gonna read that one day,” the Guardians of the Galaxy star explained. “He’s nine. And it’s etched in digital stone. It really f–king bothered me, dude. I cried about it.”
Pratt continued: “I was like, I hate that these blessings in my life [like my career] are — to the people close to me — a real burden.”
The Avengers: Endgame actor and Faris tied the knot in an intimate ceremony in Bali in July 2009 and welcomed their son in August 2012. Jack was born nine weeks premature, and the former couple talked about his difficult first weeks of