Eric Roberts has apologised to his sister Julia Roberts after claiming he “made her famous”.
The actor declared his regrets in a novel memoir, Runaway Put together: Or the Story of My Lifestyles So Some distance.
Referring to his sister as “Julie”, Eric, 68, used to be upfront about having previously claimed he gave Julia, 56, a legitimate enhance.
“Now one of the things I’d like to apologize for in this book is for publicly saying on more than one occasion, ‘If it wasn’t for me, there would be no Julia Roberts,'” an extract from the e book, got by Leisure Weekly, be taught.
“That’s not only unfortunate, but it’s also untrue. And I hope Julie will accept this more public apology. It was an asinine thing to have said. I was proud of her, but it was pride turned on its head, to my own advantage.”
Nonetheless Eric – whose daughter is fellow actor Emma Roberts, 33 – went on to train he believed it used to be due to him that Julia selected to pursue performing, after she visited him in Original York where he had solid a occupation in the entertainment industry.
“That’s when, it seems to me, she saw my life as a young actor in New York, and saw what I was doing for my livelihood, and she wanted to try it,” he claimed.