Amid the pandemic, the Friends actress thought about giving her father another chance, an actor who left home when she was 10 years old.
Jennifer Aniston's parents separated when she was a child. 41 years after that, and after many therapy sessions, the actress is ready to leave her anger and resentment in the past and make peace with her father John Aniston, who left the family home and chose not to have Too much contact with her daughter.
"Jen forgave her father for leaving a long time ago. But her relationship has been up and down," a source close to the man told The Mail on Sunday. They had not spoken for years, but the coronavirus made the actress think a lot about her father.
"It's as if Jennifer Aniston has realized that life is very short and wants her relationship with John to go as well as possible. He is delighted that they have reconciled," added the source, who confessed that when the couple met Divorced, Aniston spent a year without seeing her father.
John is a veteran soap opera star. He is known for his role as Victor Kiriakis in Days Of Our Lives, whom he has been playing since 1985.
Nancy Dow, model and mother of the actress, and John Aniston separated in November 1979 after 11 years of marriage, when Jennifer was 10 years old. The protagonist of Friends recalled the divorce some time ago in an interview with Rolling Stone. She explained that John left his mother for another woman.
"I went to a birthday party, and when I came back, my mom said, 'Your dad's not going to be here for a while,'" Jennifer recalled. "She didn't say she was gone forever. I don't know if I blocked it, but I just remember sitting there crying, not understanding that she was gone. I don't know what I did later that night or the next day."
"I don't remember anything other than a strange situation that suddenly my father was not there. And he left for a while, about a year," added the protagonist of Marley and Me.
Jennifer Aniston's relationship with her mother was not the best either. Things got tense when the actress rose to fame with Friends. Her mother used to go on television shows to air secrets from her life. The straw that broke the camel's back was a book that the mother published about the actress in which she recounted all the details of her private life. They went 15 years without speaking. Aniston didn't even invite her to her wedding to Brad Pitt.
Dow passed away in 2016. The actress was by her side at that time trying to rebuild the relationship, which was never smooth.
