The actress had to learn to ask for help.
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he’s back and happier than ever – but with an emotional plea to women everywhere. After finally conquering her demons following a horrific assault and a battle with cancer, The Nanny star Fran Drescher says she’s taking her life back one day at a time, and she finally loves the woman she’s become. She’s also busy taking both Hollywood and Broadway by storm, with a new sitcom, Indebted, and the development of The Nanny into a musical. “Getting really connected to myself has been a great journey,” she says. “Now I’m not even feeling like I have to be in a relationship, because I’m in a relationship with myself. And it’s going quite well!” Relying on her Buddhist teachings – as well as a gentleman friend “with benefits” – Fran (62) says she’s got to her place of contentment through a little bit of selfishness, as well as by learning to ask for help. “For me to be well-rounded, I have to sometimes make it about me,” she says. “I have to be able to ask for help. I have to be vulnerable. I can’t just be strong.”
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It’s a lesson learnt through decades of hardship, including a terrifying sexual assault in 1985, a divorce, and a fight against uterine cancer in 2000. Previously too afraid to ask for support, she now urges women not to make the same mistakes. “Don’t ignore something and hope it goes away, or drive yourself into an early grave because you feel like you have too much stuff to do for everyone else. That is a pitfall women often experience. I’m here to say, ‘Stop that!’” And with her return to TV in Indebted, in which two broke parents move in with their son, she says she feels like she’s “back in the major leagues”.
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e’s claimed almost ever tr hy ossible this awards season. But though Brad Pitt’s ma antelpiece is well decked ou ut with accolades, he’s ma anaged to win something farr greater – the love of his eld dest son, Maddox (18). After a confrontation be etween the pair on a prrivate jet in 2016, which led to the collapse of his marriage to Angelina Jolie, Brrad and Maddox have ba arely spoken. But after receiving a phone call from his son, who had flown back to Los Angeles from university in So outh Korea, Brad (56) at th he last minute cancelled his scheduled appearance att the BAFTA awards, citing a “family obligation” to “Maddox gave Brad th he chance to talk and he dr d ever hi ,” a frriend says. “Being a father is the m most important thing in h his life and he would do a anything to repair the elationsh . Maddox has b been away at university so
when Brad found out he was in to be around and they could have a conversation, he cancelled the UK trip.” Brad did, however, make it to the Academy Aw ds, where he picked up an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor – and at the end of his speech, he gave a h hi n– he also has Pax (16), Zahara (15), Shiloh (13) and twins Vivienne and Knox (11), with Angelina (44). “This is for my kids, who colour everything I do. I adore you,” Brad said, much to their delight. A family friend noted, “The loved that he ve them a shout-out. That was a sweet moment for everyone. The older they get, the more they appreciate what incredible talents their parents are. Th know th are blessed and lucky to have Brad as their dad. But at the end of the day they’re still kids and he’s still just dad, not Brad Pitt the Oscar winner. Th definite keep his feet on the ound.”
