

They all have the obligatory storage spaces in the Valley." guy and I'm a Boston girl," she told Boston Globe in 2014. "I told her, 'We're not married, yet, but you're like a stepmother to my kids.'"Īfter five years together in 2014, the pair decided to call it quits.ĭespite all signs that they were going strong, Dushku shared her desire to return to Boston - where she grew up - was a major factor in their decision to part ways. "Watching her and my kids bond over the holidays was really a gift to me - I couldn't have wished for anything better," he shared. So we want to make sure the foundation is laid in a responsible way where communication is had about what she wants from life as a woman - whether she wants to have kids or go back to school - whatever she wants to do."įox had two children from his previous marriage to Vanessa Williams, whom he divorced in 2005 after six years of marriage. "I've failed in marriage before, and this will be her first marriage. "We've been honest about that conversation, and we've had it," he explained. The pair discussed marriage, but in an interview with US Weekly, Fox shared Dushku had other goals in mind first. "At the time, Eliza was too scared to tell the whole story and in a way I think she protected me from knowing because she knew how frightened I was of the powerful men on the set." Relationships.ĭushku began dating former Canadian basketball player Rick Fox in 2009. And it was years later that I finally understood fully what really happened. "No, it was not her career that I feared for, as that meant nothing to me. "I accept your condemnation as Eliza’s mother," she wrote in response to comments that she had allowed the abuse. Since then, he has had two more allegations made against him.ĭushku's mother, Judy, responded to criticism via Facebook, following her daughter's brave admission. Kramer denied the allegations as "just outright hyperbole and lies". I was met with blank stares and had the sense that I wasn’t telling that person anything they didn’t already know." I was on the True Lies set for three weeks and reported Joel Kramer‘s inappropriate sexual behavior towards 12-year-old Eliza to a person in authority. "I was her legal guardian and took seriously my need to have her in my sight at all times, which was often difficult to do. Sue Booth-Forbes, who was Dusku's legal guardian at the time of filming, said in 2018: "Eliza Dushku is telling the truth." "That image has haunted me near nonstop since. "And a few weeks ago, I found an internet photo of Joel Kramer hugging a young girl," she wrote. In it, she urged others struggling with addiction to seek help.ĭushku wrote that she thought Kramer had been forced out of his Hollywood work after being "found out", but later learned he was still working in the industry, In 2018, the actress celebrated 10 years of sobriety with an Instagram post. "I didn't like myself but I love my family." "I got sober at first for my family, because I had gotten to a point where I felt so sick about myself," she shared. She made the decision to go sober after her brother told her she couldn't see her niece because 'he couldn't trust her'. I loved the way it made me not feel, and I didn't have to feel. She continued: "I loved the first time I took a drug because I loved how it made me feel. "You hear people say 'I am that' because I am that, and I'm always going to be that, but the difference between me and an alcoholic or drug addict that still drinks and does drugs is that I am sober." "Something a lot of people don't know about me is that I am an alcoholic, and I was a drug addict for a lot of years," she explained at Youth Summit on Opioid Awareness.

In 2017, the actor revealed her struggle with alcohol and substance abuse and the impacts it had on her relationships with her family.Īt just 14, Dushku tried illegal substances for the first time, citing it as "fun.
