Zoe Kravitz said she now regrets making the “hurtful” choice to live with her rockstar dad, Lenny Kravitz, at age 11 following her parents’ divorce.
“The Batman” star reflected on her childhood in her latest Esquire cover story saying she feels she didn’t fully appreciate the lifestyle her mother, Lisa Bonet, laid out for her because of her strict parenting style.
“I think it was very hurtful that I moved away from her to be with my dad and my dad wasn’t even there,” she told the outlet.
“I just wish I had been able to appreciate what she was doing for me. She was so focused on preserving my innocence. My creativity. Because she knew what the world is — that you don’t get that back.”
The “Cosby Show” star, 56, officially split from Lenny in 1991 — just four years after the two were married. They welcomed daughter Zoe in 1988. They officially divorced two years after their split.
Zoe lived with her mother for the first decade of her life, but later moved across the country to live with her father in Miami, who she’d previously only seen a few times a year.
The “Blink Twice” director recalled his visits being “this whirlwind of a completely different universe.”
“And then I would go home to this really quiet, really simple life,” she shared.
Suddenly, she found she had a whole new freedom at 11 years old due to her dad’s minimal presence in the home — which led her to grow up faster than most children her age.
“It wasn’t that my dad didn’t care,” she said. “He just cared about different things.”
Zoe further noted how the novelty of her new freedom ultimately wore off when she learned the reality of the lifestyle.
“Just like it happens in the movies, it’s like, ‘Oh, you think this is perfect? You think this is great? Guess what comes with this,'” she said.
The “Dope” actress ultimately asked her father to move to New York — where she says she felt like she fit in.
“I wasn’t some genius actress. I felt safe,” she said of the move to the city.