Reese Witherspoon’s Daughter Ava Wants Nothing To Do With Dad Ryan Phillippe

Once-upon-a-time, Ryan Phillippe seemed to have the most beautiful relationship with daughter Ava, but those days are long gone according to a source speaking to Daily Mail about the matter.

In fact, both father and daughter haven’t seen or spoken to each other in two years. That’s a bloody long time if you ask me.

Ava Phillippe Estranged From Famous Father Over His Appalling Treatment of Women

Ava Phillippe is 25 and thus can make her own decisions and choose who and what she wants in her life and for herself. If her father is going to go around treating women badly, then she really doesn’t have anything to do with him.

“She has no contact with him and rarely mentions him. Ryan hasn’t been a present father figure in her life for years,” the Daily Mail source revealed. With the duo being so tight knit just a number of years ago, what possibly went wrong?

Well, there’s been suggestions that Ava isn’t a big fan of how her old man treats women. You may or may not have heard, but in 2017, Phillippe’s then-girlfriend Elsie Hewett accused him of abuse.

According to the former playboy model, Philippe hit and struck her before throwing her down the stairs in her own home. In the $1 million lawsuit, she claimed that the star used drugs, alcohol and steroids, which prompted his mood swings.

At the time, even though Phillippe denied the allegations and claimed his support for ”women’s rights, feminism and advocacy,” he settled the matter out of court for an undisclosed sum.

Ryan Phillippe Once Said That Daughter Ava Taught Him What Love Is

Prior to this breakdown of their relationship, Philippe had always talked about sharing a close bond with his daughter Ava – a bond which he claimed was forged the very day she was born.

In 2014, he recalled how he raced to be by her wife’s side and meet his newborn child by helicopter from Utah, where he was shooting the thriller ‘The Way Of The Gun,’ to Beverly Hills.

“With my stomach in knots, exhausted & dirty, covered in syrupy fake blood & shards of candy glass the heli[copter] found the pad and I was taken to an area to sterilize myself,” he shared in X, formerly Twitter.

“I made it to my then wife’s bedside w/ two hours to spare before my baby girl first entered the world. Fifteen years ago I learned what love truly is.”

However, said ex-wife Reese Witherspoon told a different story of her experience. “I did not have a lot of support with my first baby and I learned really early, like, this is not going to work,” the actress told the We Are Supported By podcast in 2021.

“I tried to muscle through for five months with Ava, just not sleeping and I became delirious. I was lucky enough to have money saved and I didn’t have to work, but it’s just not a one-person job. I would even say it’s not a two-person job.”

Phillippe has continued to praise his daughter, calling her “my little star” and “most beautiful daughter a father could ever have” through the years.

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