Ben Stiller gets candid about parenting and how it compares to the upbringing he received from his legendary parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.
speaks to RadarOnline.comadmitted the actor and filmmaker that he hasn’t always had the right parenting.
“You want to do better than your parents, but some places you do better, sometimes you do worse,” Stiller admitted.
“I probably f*** up with my kids more than my parents did with us.”
The Meet the parents the star’s comments come ahead of his new documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing is lostwhich explores his parents’ behind-the-scenes lives, while also giving glimpses of his relationship with his own children, Ella, and Quinlin, who he shares with wife Christine Taylor.
In the film, Ella opens up about feeling that her father was not around much during her childhood.
“I literally never remember you being around when I was growing up,” she told him.
When Stiller asks his son if he felt the same way, Quinlin replies, “After a hard day, you can kind of get into your own head, and once you get into that place, it’s hard to get out of it.”
Despite the difficult admissions, the documentary highlighted Stiller’s efforts to reconnect and grow.
“This is the struggle we all go through,” he concluded.
