Andie MacDowell Quotes

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb.

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

My parents separated when I was younger.

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.

I was very young when my parents separated, and later, my mother remarried.

I remember the bad times as a succession of painful emotional snapshots: Me walking into the library at 24 Sussex, seeing my mother in tears, and hearing her talk about leaving while my father stood facing her, stern and ashen.

My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.

Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.

My parents split up when I was 3 years old, and I lived with my mother.

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn't see Dad all that often after that - four or five times a year.

My parents are separated. My father left when I was six years old.

I was barely 17 when our father decided to part ways with my mother.

I don't want to get too detailed and personal, but my parents got divorced when I was about nine. A lot of that had to do with my dad being on the road and that disconnect.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina and didn't play a part in my life. He and my mother divorced when I was only two.

I was so tiny when my parents split up that I can't remember them ever being together. That was never an issue, as I guess I never went through the trauma of them splitting up.

My father and my mother separated when I was two.

I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn't see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I'd see him every couple years.

And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on.

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.