Eric Roberts is done entertaining the idea that he and Julia Roberts have some deep family feud. He says the whole thing was never real to begin with. After years of whispers about tension between the siblings, the veteran actor is now brushing it off in direct terms and making it clear that whatever minor disagreements they have are exactly that: minor.
Speaking on April 14, Eric shut down the long-running rift chatter and sounded almost amused that it is still hanging around. “It’s not true — it never was true. We’re fine,” he said. That alone would have been enough to calm things down, but he kept going and made his view of Julia very plain. “She’s a wonderful actor, she’s a wonderful human,” he said, before adding, “She’s a cool chick and I like her.”
Eric Roberts Shuts Down the Julia Feud Talk
The remark matters because the sibling story has had a strange afterlife in Hollywood. Eric and Julia rarely discuss each other publicly, and that silence helped fuel years of curiosity. Eric now says they avoid talking about one another in interviews for a reason. Too often, he thinks, it gets turned into a weird contest even though they were never competing for the same roles.
He also made clear that their disagreements are normal family stuff, not some long-burning drama. “We have disagreements, as people do, but we like and respect each other very much,” he said. Later, he added that any issues between them are “day-to-day disagreements” and “not a thing.”
His Old Comments Still Follow Him
Part of the reason this topic keeps resurfacing is Eric’s own past. In 2018, he made headlines after saying, “If it wasn’t for me, there would be no Julia Roberts and no Emma Roberts as celebrities, as actresses.” The quote stuck to him hard, and it clearly did damage. He later admitted the comment was wrong and self-serving.
In his 2024 memoir, ‘Runaway Train: Or, The Story of My Life So Far’, Eric directly apologized to Julia and said the claim was “not only unfortunate, but it’s also untrue.” He called it “an asinine thing to have said” and admitted he had twisted his pride in her success into something that benefited him.
That is what gives his new comments more weight. This is not just Eric being complimentary for a day. It feels more like someone trying to finally put an old narrative to bed. He is praising Julia’s career, praising her as a mother, and saying the feud people keep circling back to never really existed in the way outsiders imagined.
For a family that rarely turns private dynamics into public theater, that is about as clear as it gets.
