Actor Antonio Banderas insisted on dealing with his wife Melanie Griffith's recent drug troubles "openly", so their teenage daughter could understand what her mother was going through.The Working Girl star, who battled alcohol and substance abuse issues early on in her career, checked into rehab in 2009 after becoming hooked on prescription painkillers following a skiing accident in 2007.
In an interview with Aarp The Magazine, Griffith admits Stella, her 14-year-old child with Banderas, and Dakota, her grown-up daughter from a previous relationship with Don Johnson, had both realised something was seriously wrong with their mum before she turned to professionals for help.
And she and Banderas decided it best to be as open as possible with their children, as Griffith fought to get clean.
Banderas tells the publication, "The pretending is the worst, because kids are so smart. They can see through all of those things, and if you don't talk openly about problems, it creates a very dark place. They carry that through the rest of their lives, to their marriages, to their kids."
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