I really admired other parents I saw running around with their kids. I thought, “How nice is that for their children?” But they also left me racked with guilt–until one mother, out of the dozens I met, told me I shouldn’t feel bad. “You’re not your daughter’s playmate,” she said, and I nearly burst out in tears, because I needed to hear that so badly.

I really admired other parents I saw running around with their kids. I thought, “How nice is that for their children?” But they also left me racked with guilt–until one mother, out of the dozens I met, told me I shouldn’t feel bad. “You’re not your daughter’s playmate,” she said, and I nearly burst out in tears, because I needed to hear that so badly.

– Leah Remini –

Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

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