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Lily Collins forgives her father, Phil Collins, in new book

The actress daughter of Phil Collins has forgiven him in her new book of essays.

In “Unfiltered,” Lily Collins writes she forgives her father for “not always being there” when she needed and for “not being the dad” she expected. She adds they can’t “rewrite the past” and it’s not too late for them “to move forward.”

Phil Collins and Lily Collins’ mother, Jill Tavelman, divorced in 1996, when Lily Collins was 7 years old.

Lily Collins was nominated for a Golden Globe this year for her role in Warren Beatty’s “Rules Don’t Apply.”

Her book was released Tuesday.

Phil Collins stepped away from music in 2011, three years after his third marriage ended in divorce. He said he wanted to focus on raising his two young sons and “to be a dad for the first time. A proper dad.”

Scarlett Johansson’s divorce filing prompts custody battle

Scarlett Johansson’s husband was “shocked” by the star’s divorce filing and sees the move as a “pre-emptive strike” in a battle over custody of the couple’s toddler daughter, his lawyer said.

Johansson filed for divorce from Romain Dauriac in a New York City court Tuesday, saying the marriage was “irretrievably broken.” The move follows a January announcement that the couple split last summer after less than two years of marriage.

Johansson is asking for joint custody of their daughter, Rose, but also wants the child to live with her.

Dauriac’s lawyer, Hal Mayerson, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he and Dauriac were taken aback by the request because he has been the “primary parent” for Rose while Johansson has been involved with her career. Dauriac plans to petition the court to take the child to live with him in his native France, Mayerson said, adding that Johansson will have “access to her daughter any time she wants to come to Paris.”

Dauriac is a former journalist who now works as a curator of art shows in New York, Mayerson said.

Associated Press