When Family Feuds Go A Step Too Far

Disregarding your daughter? Anthony Hopkins gives the world a stark lesson in bad parenting

My goodness we love a good feud. What would the soaps do for storylines without simmering stand-offs between ostracised members of family?

Ignoring phone calls, not returning texts, removing pictures from the wall, it takes enormous energy to sustain such hatred for months. Who has the stamina to keep it going for years? Step forward celebrated actor Sir Anthony Hopkins.

He’s barely spoken to his daughter, Abigail, for 20 years.