Celebrity Families That Can't Get Along

Beyond the on-screen appearances, cult followings, endorsement deals, magazine covers, and red carpets, celebrities have their own personal lives — lives which are sometimes plagued with conflicts and lifetime feuds with their own relatives. After all, they are humans, just like us. Elon Musk's transgender daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson, for example, publicly cut ties with the tech billionaire after filing to change her name. "I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form," Wilson wrote in the petition, per The Guardian. Then of course, there are the far less intense, yet frequent scuffles between Kim Kardashian and her older sister Kourtney Kardashian that got to be so bad that the Poosh founder even took a brief break from "Keeping Up with the Kardashians." 

Bottom line, it is not uncommon to find celebrity families who do not (or simply can't) get along — even if their public reputation depends on it. But while a few of these stars are often able to hug things out and resolve their conflicts, even if it's just for the cameras, many others can't bring themselves to pretend to the rest of the world that there is no trouble looming in paradise. Get ready, because we're about to walk you through a handful of stars who have struggled with major family drama. 

For as long as they can remember, actors Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson have been estranged from their father.  Oliver was about 5 years old and Kate was 18 months when their parents Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson divorced. The two siblings ended up being raised by their mom and her longtime partner Kurt Russell, whom they fondly regard as their father. Still, the sting of growing up without their biological dad lingers. "I have a stepfather who stepped in and played a huge, huge part in sharing what it is to have a dependable father figure in our life," she told "Today" in January 2021. "But it doesn't take away from the fact that we didn't know our dad."

On Father's Day in 2015, Oliver lobbed a shot at Bill on social media while also appreciating Russell for his love. "Happy abandonment day," Oliver wrote in an Instagram post. Kate also took the social media platform, sharing a picture of herself and Russell and writing, "Pa, just simply..... Thank you. Happy Fathers Day I love you to the moon and back." After he saw the posts, Bill told the Daily Mail that he no longer wanted anything to do with Kate and Oliver. "They are no longer a part of my life. Oliver's Instagram post was a malicious, vicious, premeditated attack. He is dead to me now. As is Kate," he said.

As if Prince Harry being estranged from other members of his royal family wasn't enough, wife Meghan Markle has also had her fair share of family drama — particularly with her father Thomas Markle. A few days before her May 2018 wedding to Harry, the Daily Mail broke a story confirming that Thomas had teamed up with British paparazzi to stage pictures for the tabloids. Per the outlet, he made about £100,000 from the deal. Controversially, Thomas, who was at the time set to walk his daughter down the aisle, pulled out of the wedding last minute, telling TMZ he was scheduled for an emergency heart surgery. From that point forward, things changed forever between the father-daughter duo.

Speaking in a July 2018 interview, Thomas claimed he had not spoken to his daughter for two months. "I had a heart attack, doesn't anybody care? I could actually die soon," he told The Sun. "It is probably the longest time I have gone without speaking to her ever." The former light director also offered a public apology to Meghan: "I'm sorry for anything that went wrong. I'd like to put our differences behind us and get together."

Though Meghan may never totally make amends with her father, she wants to find peace. "I think forgiveness is really important. It takes a lot more energy to not forgive," she told The Cut in August 2022. "But it takes a lot of effort to forgive."

Since childhood, Ariel Winter has had a difficult relationship with her mother, Crystal Workman. "I definitely had an interesting family dynamic when I was growing up," Winter said to La Palme Magazine in 2017 (via Insider). "It was mostly my mom and I, and we didn't have a fantastic relationship." When she a teenager, she moved in with her sister and was eventually emancipated from her mom. 

Winter has accused Workman of not only both physical and emotional abuse, but of sexualizing her at an early age. "People thought I was 24 when I was 12," she told The Hollywood Reporter. "If there was going to be a nude scene when I was that age, my mother would have a thousand percent said yes."  Sharon Sacks, Winter's teacher during her "Modern Family" years, told the outlet the young actor's mom placed her on a strict diet and didn't seem to have any regard for her schedule. "Her mother kept her out late at night at these ridiculous parties. She was 12 and 13 years old and had to be on set at 6:30, 7," Sacks said.

Though Workman has previously called for a reconciliation, per "Inside Edition," Winter apparently has no interest in mending their relationship. To date, she remains estranged from Workman.

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No pun intended, but very few rock feuds have rocked our worlds like the one between brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher. Before the fame, Liam and Noel, who are five years apart, surely bickered. But once their band Oasis took off in the '90s, that bickering turned into a full-blown war. During Oasis's 1994 American tour, Noel famously bowed out of the tour altogether after he'd had it with Liam changing lyrics to songs. Per the Mirror, only a year after, Liam and Noel were caught in yet another altercation during one of the band's recording sessions. In the years that followed, the siblings continued to duke it out.

In 2009, Noel made an announcement that would change rock 'n' roll forever. "It's with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight," he wrote in a statement at the time, per The Guardian. "People will write and say what they like but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer." But even though they no longer work together, Liam and Noel continue to take digs at each other whenever they get a chance.

If you are holding your breath for an Oasis reunion, it's probably never going to happen. As Noel quipped to "Pub Talk" in October 2022, "Er, would you go on holiday with your ex-missus?" Needless to say, it's probably best to let those reunion dreams slide away.