There’s no love lost between Kim and Sarah Jessica Parker
HER SHOCKING ATTACK ON CO-STAR SARAH HAS LEFT FANS AND COLLEAGUES REELING
On screen, they were the best of friends – which just goes to show what good actresses they are. Off screen, there’s no love lost between Kim Cattrall and her Sex and the City castmate Sarah Jessica Parker.
And after rumours have circulated for years about the bad blood between the two, the gloves are now well and truly off, with Kim blasting Sarah via social media and telling her, “You are not my friend.”
She also branded the star of the hit TV show as “cruel” and accused her of exploiting the tragic death of Kim’s brother Chris in order to look good.
The long-standing feud came to a head after Kim (61) announced on Instagram that Chris (55) had died, after earlier posting that he was missing from his home in Alberta, Canada, and asking for people to look out for him. After his body was found, she put up a message thanking her fans and Sex and the City colleagues for their support.
Cynthia Nixon, who played Miranda on the hit show, left a message saying, “Hey Kim, such awful news. So sorry to hear. Sending you love.”
Kim later thanked her co-star (51), saying, “Cynthia, hearing your voice meant so much to me. Thank you for reaching out. Love, Kim.”
But Sarah Jessica Parker did not get the same response when she posted, “Dearest Kim, my love and condolences to you and yours and Godspeed to your beloved brother.”
Instead, several days later, in a separate post targeted specifically at Sarah (52), Kim wrote, “I don’t need your love or support at this tragic time @sarahjessicaparker.”
She let rip even further, saying, “Your continuous reaching out is a painful reminder of how cruel you really were then and now. 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.”
She also brought her family into the dispute, writing, “My mom asked me today, ‘When will that @sarahjessicaparker, that hypocrite, leave you alone?’”
Kim also posted a link to a story that ran in the New York Post last year, which claimed that a “mean girl” culture tainted Sex and the City, and that she had been “treated horribly” by Sarah for many years.
When the hit show first appeared back in 1998, there were immediately tensions on set, according to one insider, because although Sarah had the lead role, Kim, who played man-eater Samantha, was a natural scene stealer. “The camera went right to her.”
A clique formed between Sarah, Cynthia and Kristin Davis (52), who played Charlotte, leaving Kim out in the cold. Kim’s only real ally was series creator and producer Darren Star, but when he left after the second season, to be replaced by Sarah’s friend Michael Patrick King, Kim became isolated.
A crew member at the time said, “Sarah, Kristin and Cynthia have frozen Kim out. They won’t sit with her for meals, there’s no
going out after the show for a nightcap. It’s so bad, she sits in her dressing room alone – sometimes crying.”
While the show was being filmed on location in Atlantic City, Sarah allegedly rented a house for herself, Kristin and Cynthia to stay in, leaving Kim on her own. A publicist for Sex and the City had to do damage control, claiming that Kim stayed somewhere different because “she was married and her husband was supposed to come down”.
Kim was said to be furious when Sarah received executive producer credits on the show and was given a pay increase. She reputedly earned $1.3 million per episode – almost three times Kim’s $480,000 salary. And the actress was not pleased Sarah was allowed to keep a bra on during sex scenes, while she had to bare all.
After the programme ended on a high in 2004, plans to make a movie were held up by Kim, who wanted more money to do it. A sequel was written because the first one was so successful (and a big earner for Sarah, who was one of the producers), but there was noticeable tension during filming.
“Sarah Jessica Parker and
Kim Cattrall are no longer speaking, which is making everyone on the set uncomfortable,” said one insider.
Sarah later admitted that working long days and being tired inevitably led to conflict on the shoot. “Sometimes feelings get hurt. But I don’t have any regrets about how
I treated people.”
A third movie was written and ready to go, until
Kim refused to do it. She denied that money was the reason. Instead, she said she had never wanted to do the movie and it was simply “an empowered decision in my life to end one chapter and start another”.
Sarah was said to be “heartbroken” that the movie had to be scrapped, and upset when Kim told TV host Piers Morgan there was a “toxic relationship” with people on the show and that she’d never been friends with her colleagues.
“The common ground we had was the series and the series is over. For me, it’s over with no regrets.
I just wish that Sarah had been nicer.”