{"id":2519559,"date":"2026-07-27T20:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2519559"},"modified":"2026-07-27T20:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:29:21","slug":"why-wasnt-emma-roberts-dad-eric-at-her-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-wasnt-emma-roberts-dad-eric-at-her-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Wasn&#8217;t Emma Roberts Dad Eric At Her Wedding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tEric Roberts wasn\u2019t among the guests who watched his daughter, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/tags\/emma-roberts\/\" id=\"auto-tag_emma-roberts\" data-tag=\"emma-roberts\">Emma Roberts<\/a>, marry actor Cody John at a home in Idaho on Saturday, July 25, but the <em>King of the Gypsies<\/em> star says he has nothing but love for his only child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI love my daughter, always have, always will,\u201d he told <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/07\/27\/celebrity-news\/eric-roberts-speaks-out-after-missing-estranged-daughter-emmas-idaho-wedding-to-cody-john\/\">Page Six<\/a><\/em> in a statement. \u201cIt is perfectly wonderful for her to celebrate however she wants,\u00a0with whomever she wants.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"article-related-links \/\/ lrv-u-padding-a-050 a-background-color-body-inset-b-2@mobile-max\">\n\t<!-- disable-pmc_link_tags_to_related_posts-starts --><\/p>\n<article class=\"o-card a-background-color-body-offset-tl-n1@tablet lrv-u-padding-lr-1 lrv-u-padding-b-1 u-padding-a-1@tablet lrv-u-margin-t-1 lrv-u-border-a-1 lrv-u-border-color-brand-secondary\">\n<p>\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/entertainment\/articles\/1235037185\/julia-roberts-emma-roberts-wedding\/\" class=\"lrv-u-flex@tablet\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  lrv-u-display-none@mobile-max\">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-4x3 u-width-125@tablet\" style=\"\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"o-card__content u-margin-l-1@tablet\">\n<p><span class=\"c-span  u-letter-spacing-015 lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase a-font-secondary-bold-s lrv-u-font-size-14 lrv-u-margin-t-050 lrv-u-margin-t-1@desktop lrv-u-margin-b-025 u-margin-tb-00@tablet lrv-u-display-block\"><\/p>\n<p>\tRelated story<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-title  a-font-secondary-medium-s@mobile-max a-font-primary-xs@tablet lrv-u-line-height-normal lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-margin-b-1 u-margin-t-050@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-025 lrv-u-color-brand-primary:hover\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tDid Julia Roberts Go to Her Famous Niece Emma Roberts\u2019 Wedding?\t\t<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>\t<!-- disable-pmc_link_tags_to_related_posts-ends --><br \/>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tEmma, who was born during Eric\u2019s romance with his ex-girlfriend Kelly Cunningham, has had a fraught relationship with her father for many years. During an April appearance on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2y4I5oJDTv4\">Really Famous With Kara Mayer Robinson<\/a>, Eric said he was a \u201ccar wreck\u201d when Emma was born in 1991 and was \u201cnot to be depended on emotionally\u201d due to his depression and addiction issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tEric added that his relationship with Emma is \u201cnot a straight\u201d line but said, \u201cI\u2019m so proud of my daughter. I\u2019m so proud of my kid. She didn\u2019t start off as a great actor, but she became a great actor. She\u2019s fabulous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tEric previously opened up about being an absent father in his 2024 memoir <em>Runaway Train: Or the Story of My Life So Far<\/em>. \u201cI loved my little daughter with the strength of Hercules, despite my own weaknesses,\u201d he wrote. \u201cHowever, I couldn\u2019t handle the realities of an infant coming into my life, and I couldn\u2019t handle being a parent! I\u2019m still not a father figure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAt her wedding, Emma was walked down the aisle by her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/parenting\/articles\/1234827123\/emma-roberts-rhodes-lookalikes-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">5-year-old son, Rhodes<\/a>, whom she shares with ex Garrett Hedlund. She wore a custom-made, vintage-inspired Monique Lhuillier dress, while Cody wore a classic black tuxedo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe couple exchanged vows in front of celebrity guests including Ashley Benson and her husband, Brandon Davis; Demi Moore; Kristen Stewart and her partner, Dylan Meyer; Sarah Paulson; and Billie Lourd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tEmma\u2019s aunt, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/tags\/julia-roberts\/\" id=\"auto-tag_julia-roberts\" data-tag=\"julia-roberts\">Julia Roberts<\/a>, who is also estranged from Eric, also attended with her husband, Danny Moder.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.sheknows.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Roberts wasn\u2019t among the guests who watched his daughter, Emma Roberts, marry actor Cody John at a home in Idaho on Saturday, July 25, but the King of the Gypsies star says he has nothing but love for his only child. \u201cI love my daughter, always have, always will,\u201d he told Page Six in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2519562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003,345338,345279],"class_list":["post-2519559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-emma-roberts","tag-julia-roberts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Why-Wasnt-Emma-Roberts-Dad-Eric-At-Her-Wedding.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2519559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2519564,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519559\/revisions\/2519564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2519562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2519559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2519559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2519559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}