’I don’t need your love or support’: Cattrall
Actress rejects Parker’s condolences on brother’s death
Lest there was any shred of remaining doubt about Kim Cattrall’s feelings toward her former Sex and the City co-star Sarah Jessica Parker, an Instagram post put the matter to rest Saturday.
“You are not my friend,” Cattrall wrote in a message, less than one week after her 55-year-old brother, Chris Cattrall, was found dead at his home in Alberta. An accompanying image with the post read: “I don’t need your love or support at this tragic time @sarahjessicaparker.”
Parker had expressed sympathy for Cattrall’s family, telling Extra, “we all send her our love and condolences” while not ruling out the possibility of a third Sex and the City movie, without Cattrall.
“If somebody in your life, whether you’re in touch with them or not, is suffering for any reason, it’s involuntary that you want to convey condolences or sadness or just let someone know you’re thinking about them,” Parker told Entertainment Tonight. Cattrall said Parker was a “hypocrite.” “Your continuous reaching out is a painful reminder of how cruel you really were then and now,” Cattrall wrote. “Let me make this VERY clear. (If I haven’t already) You are not my family. You are not my friend. So I’m writing to tell you one last time to stop exploiting our tragedy in order to restore your ‘nice girl’ persona.”
Cattrall pasted a link to an article from the New York Post, which alleged a “mean-girls culture” that ultimately destroyed the franchise.
Publicists for Cattrall and Parker did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
On screen, Cattrall and Parker — with Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon — portrayed best friends navigating their 30s (or, in Cattrall’s case, her early 40s), while pursuing careers, romance and a parade of brunches in New York. The Sex and the City franchise was a hit for HBO.
Off-screen, however, there were persistent rumours of tension.
Reports surfaced last fall that Cattrall wasn’t interested in participating in a Sex in the City 3 movie. Citing unnamed sources, a Daily Mail “exclusive” blamed the botched sequel plans on Cattrall’s “ridiculous demands.”
Cattrall denied that and in an interview with Piers Morgan, she said she and her co-stars had “never been friends.”
“... Sarah Jessica, she could have been nicer, she could have in some way. I don’t know what her issue is. I never have.”