Actor Antonio Banderas insisted on dealing with his wife Melanie Griffith's recent drug troubles "openly", so their teenage daughter could understand what her mother was going through.
The Working Girl star, who battled alcohol and substance abuse issues early on in her career, checked into rehab in 2009 after becoming hooked on prescription painkillers following a skiing accident in 2007.
In an interview with Aarp The Magazine, Griffith admits Stella, her 14-year-old child with Banderas, and Dakota, her grown-up daughter from a previous relationship with Don Johnson, had both realised something was seriously wrong with their mum before she turned to professionals for help.
And she and Banderas decided it best to be as open as possible with their children, as Griffith fought to get clean.
Banderas tells the publication, "The pretending is the worst, because kids are so smart. They can see through all of those things, and if you don't talk openly about problems, it creates a very dark place. They carry that through the rest of their lives, to their marriages, to their kids."
The Hollywood couple gave two separate interviews to the magazine and, in her candid chat, Griffith admits that although the Spanish star has been there for her throughout her troubles, he has yet to agree to attend support group meetings with her.
She says, "Antonio was supportive to the extent that he can be, but if you're not an alcoholic or drug addict, and you find out that your wife is a bad one, it's hard to deal with... I wish he would go to a meeting with me or to Al-Anon (Alcoholics Anonymous), but it's very foreign to him. Addiction runs in my family but not in his."
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