Kristin Davisis having a change of heart when it comes to her kids watchingSex and the City.
On Friday’s episode ofTheKelly ClarksonShow,host Kelly Clarkson asked Davis if her kids — sonWilson, 3, and daughter Gemma Rose, 10 — have seenSATCnow that more people are watching the series following the premiere of the revivalAnd Just Like That….
Davis quickly recalled a moment when Gemma pointed out that a person sitting near them on a plane was watching a scene fromSATCwith her mom in it. Though she said it was “a little scary” to discuss the show at the time, the actress explained that she’s more open to her kids watching the show when they’re a little older.
“Now that she’s older and now that she’s getting exposed from her friends to all this stuff, even though I’m very controlling… I’m thinking I’m going to use it as a teaching tool,” Davis said.
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“I don’t want her to feel embarrassed. I want her to talk to me. I’m a single mom, it’s super important… gotta keep them talking,” she continued. “You know,Sex and the Cityis kind of a good educational type thing… for later.”
Davis has previously discussed the need to have open dialogues with her children no matter their age.
In July 2020, the actress told PEOPLE about the conversations she had with her kids about theprotestsandconversations about race and police brutalityfollowing the death ofGeorge Floyd.
“I talk to Gemma a lot about what’s happening and she’s fascinated, of course, and sad and upset,” Davis said at the time.
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“I just want them to feel empowered, and I want them to know what’s going on because it’s not something that you cannottalk about,” she added. “I hope that everyone feels that way because it is something that we’re struggling with as a country, as a society. And hopefullyif we all take part in this struggle, we can actually do something.”
Davis also wanted “to be clear” that as a mother to two Black children, her struggles are “with our country’s attitude towards race,” noting that her relationship with her own children is “amazing.”
“It’s a lot of things to think about and it’s a lot of things that we, who are white, have the privilege of not having had to think about when we were young,” theSex and the Cityalum told PEOPLE. “They don’t have that privilege.”
Davis adopted Gemmain 2011and Wilsonin 2018. The actress previously discussed how adoption was always an option for her, just as it was for herSex and the Citycharacter Charlotte, but it was still a “terrifying” process.
source: people.com
