Family Line

40| press

March 2023
New York

Scarlett

I think we all knew the time would come.

I could only hide the fiasco happening with my daughter for so long.

The day had already been hectic with meetings and content at the office which was enough to drain me so a phone call from my publicist was the last thing I wanted.

My daughter's privacy invaded was the last thing I wanted more so due to her still being a child. If I want to be her mom again it's my job to protect her.

Me and Lisa had already established and put out our feelings in terms of the media and Robyn's involvement. It's best if kids don't mix. This is my work and my job I do everyday the press isn't something I enjoy dealing with but that's my problem not my kids they didn't ask for this.

So after a long day I found myself down in TriBeCa in a large apartment, situated on a cream couch with a latte in hand whilst my daughter was next to me and lisa was sat on a chesterfield cream armchair.

Lisa had very good taste in clothes and her apartment, it screamed class and elegance which we had in common, though the other thing in common we also had was bad taste in men.

"So where do we go from here?" Lisa asks clasping her hands together, her legs tucked underneath her.

"Well my publicist and manager are dealing with any mis leading information aswell as getting the photos of Robyn taken down." The least they could have done was blur out her face.

My free hand naturally finds its way to Robyn's head, she's sleepy it's nearly 10pm and I can imagine she's had a long day, I coax her to lay her head on my lap which she willingly does, maybe it's ber being too tired to fight against me or we're getting somewhere. Either way I'll take it as a win.

I don't miss Lisa's small smile she gives me.

It's quite reassuring. Like I have approval.

"Good I don't want her plastered over the internet" Lisa spoke firmly and nodded to herself.

I completely agreed but what we couldn't work out was how so much information got out.

When Robyn was younger me and my publicist worked tirelessly to make sure there was no way anything was spread about and it wasn't because I was ashamed of my daughter or wanted to hide her but it's not fair for her to be so exposed at such an age.

With rose I didn't get so lucky aswell as Cosmo though there isn't many pictures of him.

People were aware I was pregnant during 2008 and the birth of my daughter was kind of announced when I was caught out in public pushing her through Central Park but after that there was never another tabloid or question about Robyn and I liked it that way. Everyone was aware me and Levi split and there was speculation over Robyn but it was all forgotten the next week when their focus was on someone else.

I like work to be separate from my kids.

Robyn

I think tonight was the first time I'd made myself comfortable and let Scarlett actually comfort me without reason.

I felt stupid for not letting it happen sooner. I thought it would feel foreign to me but it felt the complete opposite.

I wasn't uncomfortable and though this might not happen all the time we've both willingly put in the time and effort to know each other again.

We have a long way to go. I'm not sure our relationship will ever be the same as it was (not that I remember a lot at all) but so far it's been nice. I'm still yet to meet my siblings which makes me pretty nervous just thinking of said people but it might be nice.