{"id":1830,"date":"2025-11-20T16:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/?p=551018"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"cynthia-erivo-shares-final-conversation-with-father-before-estrangement-and-how-it-affected-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2025\/11\/20\/cynthia-erivo-shares-final-conversation-with-father-before-estrangement-and-how-it-affected-her\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It did hurt’: Cynthia Erivo shares brutal final conversation with father before he abandoned her"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Wicked: For Good<\/a> finally releasing in cinemas tomorrow, Cynthia Erivo has been speaking a lot about her work, but one of the stories she\u2019s shared lately was about her final conversation with her estranged father, a moment she\u2019s carried since she was 16.<\/p>\n

Cynthia<\/a> wrote about the encounter in her memoir Simply More, and spoke about it again on the We Can Do Hard Things<\/a>\u00a0podcast. She explained that her father had never been \u201cpermanently\u201d in her life, but he did always pay for her card to travel to and from school. When she was 16, that suddenly changed.<\/p>\n

What was their last conversation about?<\/h2>\n