Molly Ringwald
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110 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Molly Ringwald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah. Like you're letting your family down? Yeah. Letting my family down, letting people down, you know, who believed in me, who said that I was, you know, blah, blah, blah or whatever, you know. Yeah. Like that I was just letting people down. Yeah.
I'll talk about that my mom always said that I was special.
Yeah, yeah. She, my mom had lost her firstborn, who was my first brother. And my sister at the time was only six months old. And my mom had a complete breakdown, basically. And she's, you know, open about it. She was suicidal. I mean, didn't try anything, but in her mind... she thought, you know, if I die by suicide, I'll be able to be with Robbie again.
And then she had this experience that, you know, and you know, my mom, my mom is like a very like grounded person, not at all new agey at all. This is, but an experience that she had. And, you know, Looking back on it, my more, I don't want to say cynical, but my analytical mind thinks, you know, well, she was having a complete breakdown and she was the one that was talking to herself.
But my mom absolutely to this day says, no, I was visited by a spirit who told her why she was still supposed to be there. Yeah. And apparently the reason was me. And that's a story that she told me from the time that I was very, very small. And the funny thing is, is a little PS to this whole story, is apparently my sister said that she said it to her.
I haven't asked my brother if it's true. My mom had another child after my sister, my brother, and then I was the last one. I don't know. My mom, you know how it is when there's like a story that you've heard like your whole life and then all of a sudden it's like your brother that that happened to instead of you. And you're like, well, hang on. No, you know, but I don't know.
Memory is a funny thing.
Yeah, a lot. I feel like that I lived for so long with this, this fear of disappointing people. You know, like I said, disappointing, I think, first my primal relationship, which is my parents. But then there was that, you know, disappointing whoever, like my agent or my manager or fans or people, you know. I was just always very... Yeah, I was very hard on myself in that way.
And the fact of the matter is, is I did feel like I disappointed them But it didn't matter.
You know, like when my career didn't stay, you know, at this like zenith of like white hotness or whatever. I feel like that was maybe a disappointment to my parents. But I feel like it was more like they were
You know, like whenever you're having kids now, like if they don't get something that they want or they don't do as well in a test or they whatever, those like disappointments that they have in life, it doesn't mean that I believe in them any less.
I might be disappointed for them, but, you know, but I love them and I feel like they're going to do extraordinary things because I think they're extraordinary. And I feel like that's the way that my parents were as well. I never felt like, you know, particularly with my father, I felt like that.
Well, both of them, I think, but I had a special relationship with my father and my father passed away a couple of years ago. But I feel like, yeah, he was just like my biggest fan and. You know, people say that all the time. They come up and they say like, oh, I'm your biggest fan. You know, like I actually did have my biggest fan and it was my dad. It's pretty special.
It is. It is really special. But it's like, you know, of course, it's like it's hard when you when you lose that.
I mean, it comes for all of us and it's something that we all go through, which is kind of like, I think one of the reasons why I'm open and I talk about that because I feel like grief is like, it's a hard thing for people and it's happening all the time to everyone everywhere. Sometimes it happens in a more brutal way than the way that it happened to me. But, you know, we all lose people
that we love and we all figure out a way through it when we have to. That's just part of life. But I know that anybody that's listening right now is struggling. You know, either they've gone through it or they know that it's coming, but it's really hard. And I think the only way through it is to, you know, I believe to talk about it and to be there for each other.
You know, it's all I know. And I think that I've had a pretty extraordinary life. So I try to stay focused on the gratitude of that instead of mourning something that was lost that I can't really get back. You know, I grew up in an unconventional way. And like you said, there was... There was so much – there were so many great things about it.
If I ever think about things that I've lost or, you know, things that I wish I would have done differently, I try not to have regrets. But I try to just acknowledge that, you know, particularly when I talk to my kids because sometimes –
if I have expectations or if I, you know, if I'm really like gung ho about them going to college, you know, it's because I didn't, you know, um, and I, and I wish that I had, because I think I really would have liked it. You would, I think you would have loved it. I think I would have actually thrived. I wasn't a very good high school student, but I think, I, I think I would love college.
I mean, I'm not ruling it out. Right. You know, once my... I'll be the oldest student. But it's something that I would really like to do. And I've talked to people and they've said, oh, you could teach a class. And I'm like, I don't want to teach a class. I want to learn. I'm just eternally thirsty for knowledge.
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