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You have to recognize this. Ava Murray had a privileged childhood.

Her mother is movie star Susan Sarandon and her father is an Italian director.

She spent her early days on the sets of blockbuster movies.

She got to travel to beautiful places.

She never had to want for anything that could be

bought with money. Still, it was her childhood and no one's childhood is perfect. We all struggle.

None of us got everything we needed. And so recently, Ava has become a talented actress in her

own right, spoke about how disorienting and even painful it was to grow up in such a

circus-like environment. Especially hard, she said, was the intense relationships and friendships

she would make as a kid, only to see them disappear forever as each of the actors and their

kids went back to their own lives when a film ended. And one can imagine that this was hard for her mother, Susan

Sarandon, to hear. She was a working mom, a mom who had brought her children with her rather than

leave them at home with someone else. And it's hard for any parent to hear that their children

are in pain over something, harder still when they blame you for some of that, for something

where you were doing the best that

you could and the best that you knew. But just because it's hard to hear doesn't mean it isn't true.

And besides, even if you think it isn't true, your kid does, which is all that really matters.

It's understandable that when Susan was asked about her daughter's comments,

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