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Sarah Jessica Parker (right) has revealed her side of the rift with her former Sex and the City co-star Kim Cattrall.

Sarah Jessica Parker on her ‘fight’ with Kim Cattrall: Sex and the City actress reveals in interview the feud is one-sided

  • Sarah Jessica Parker has revealed Kim Cattrall was not asked to film the new Sex and the City series because she had previously made it known she had no wish to
  • Parker also refuted any suggestion that she was in a ‘catight’ with Cattrall, because it does not reflect reality. ‘There has been one person talking,’ she says
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Sarah Jessica Parker is speaking her truth about what’s going on between her and former Sex and the City (SATC) co-star Kim Cattrall.

In a recent episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast, Parker, 57, said that the long-speculated feud is one-sided.

“It’s very hard to talk about the situation with Kim because – I’ve been so careful about not ever wanting to say anything that is unpleasant, because it’s not the way I like to conduct conversations that are as complicated as this,” she began.

Parker and Cattrall’s relationship came into question again as she was not included in the SATC revival, And Just Like That, which revealed Cattrall’s now London-based character Samantha had a falling out with Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw.

Despite their strained relationship, Samantha and Carrie kept in touch via text messages and in the finale made plans to grab coffee when Parker’s character was in Paris.

Parker at the Library of Congress on April 25, 2022 in Washington. Photo: Getty Images

Cattrall, 65, told US magazine Variety in an interview in May that she “was never asked to be part of the reboot”. She added: “I made my feelings clear after the possible third movie, so I found out about it like everyone else did – on social media.”

In Parker’s podcast interview, she confirmed Cattrall was not asked because of her comments about the potential third movie.

(Left to right) Parker, Kristin Davis and Cattrall at the UK premiere of Sex and the City 2 in London in 2010. Photo: Getty Images

It was rumoured that, in 2017, Cattrall had contractual demands that Warner Bros did not feel comfortable agreeing to, which is when Parker believes their relationship “fell apart”.

“They didn’t feel comfortable meeting where she wanted to meet, and so we didn’t do the movie because we didn’t want to do it without Kim,” Parker said. “We did not ask her to be part of this [And Just Like That] because she made it clear that that wasn’t something she wanted to pursue, and it no longer felt comfortable for us.”

“That’s not ‘slamming’ her, it’s just learning. You’ve got to listen to somebody, and if they’re publicly talking about something and it doesn’t suggest it’s some place they want to be, or a person they want to play, or an environment in which they want to be, you get to an age where you’re like, ‘Well, we hear that’.”

Cattrall at a Variety event in May, 2022. Photo: Getty Images

Parker said she’s found it “very painful” that Cattrall has said they had a bad relationship, because that didn’t reflect her experience.

“I’ve spent a lot of years working really hard to always be decent to everybody on the set, to take care of people, to be responsible to and for people, both my employers and the people that I feel I’m responsible for as a producer of the show,” she said. “And there just isn’t anyone else who’s ever talked about me this way.”

The actress denied that she is in a “catfight” with Cattrall. “I’ve never uttered fighting words in my life about anybody that I’ve worked with – ever. There is not a ‘fight’ going on. There has been no public dispute or spat or conversations or allegations made by me or anybody on my behalf,” she said.

“I just wish that they would stop calling this a ‘catfight’ or an ‘argument’, because it doesn’t reflect [reality],” Parker said. “There has been one person talking.”

 
When Cattrall’s brother died in 2018, Parker sent condolences in a comment on Cattrall’s Instagram post sharing the news. The How I Met Your Father star, however, followed up with an Instagram post that read, “I don’t need your love or support at this tragic time @sarahjessicaparker.”

“Your continuous reaching out is a painful reminder of how cruel you really were then and now,” Cattrall wrote on Instagram. “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 finished the caption off with a link to a 2017 New York Post article about the US show’s SATC’s “mean-girl culture”.

In her May story with Variety, Cattrall also clarified that she never viewed her SATC co-stars as friends. “I think we were colleagues. My colleagues aren’t my friends. It was professional.”

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