Meg Ryan and her husband
Dennis Quaid in happier times
Susan left her husband and family,
including the teenage Meg, when she
was the same age her daughter is now,
and admits that although her marriage
was dead and it took courage to walk
away from it, she knew her departure
deeply traumatised the star. |
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| MEG RYAN’S ESTRANGED MOTHER
SUSAN |
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speaks out in support of the
actress as she faces the trauma of divorce and family break-up
Meg Ryan is reportedly heartbroken after her husband, Dennis Quaid,
hearing rumours that she is involved with Gladiator star Russell Crowe,
demanded she send their eight-year-old son Jack, back to be with him in the
US.
The emotional upheaval which inevitably accompanies the ending of a long-term
relationship and the anguish and guilt of being separated from one’s child
is a situation which Meg’s estranged mother Susan Jordan, a former teacher
from Connecticut, feels she is particularly well equipped to understand, having
left her husband and children 23 years ago to pursue her own dreams of
stardom.
“She and I are cut from the same cloth,” says Susan of her daughter
Meg. “I stayed in a dead marreiage for years before finally getting the
courage to strike out on my own. She is doing the same thing.”
Susan is especially concerned about the effects of the breakup on young Jack
-Meg has often spoken of the devastation she felt when her mother left,
describing herself as feeling “rejected” and “abandoned”-.
“I worry about Jack,” says his grandmother. “I know she adores
her son; I just hope he doesn’t become another victim.”. |
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