Jodie played Kristen's mother in the 2002 film Panic Room and can relate all too well to the pressure of growing up in the public eye, having been a child star herself.
Here's the public message she sent Kristen in the wake of the 22-year-old actress's much-publicised cheating scandal:
My mother had a saying that she doled out after every small injustice, every heartbreak, every moment of abject suffering: 'This too shall pass.' God, I hated that phrase. It always seemed so banal and out of touch, like she was telling me my pain was irrelevant. Now it just seems quaint, but oddly true ... Eventually this all passes. The public horrors of today eventually blow away. And yes, you are changed by the awful wake of reckoning they leave behind. You trust less. You calculate your steps. You survive. Hopefully in the process you don't lose your ability to throw your arms in the air again and spin in wild abandon. That is the ultimate FU and — finally — the most beautiful survival tool of all. Don't let them take that away from you.
God, I hated that phrase. It always seemed so banal and out of touch, like she was telling me my pain was irrelevant. Now it just seems quaint, but oddly true ... Eventually this all passes.
The public horrors of today eventually blow away. And yes, you are changed by the awful wake of reckoning they leave behind. You trust less. You calculate your steps. You survive.
Hopefully in the process you don't lose your ability to throw your arms in the air again and spin in wild abandon. That is the ultimate FU and — finally — the most beautiful survival tool of all.
Don't let them take that away from you.
The 49-year-old went on to say that if the pressure on stars had been as intense when she was Kristen's age, it would have made her "quit before I started".
