Busy Philipps Shares the 'Best Advice' Michelle Williams Gave Her for Parenting Teens & We're Taking Notes
In an interview with SheKnows, the Busy This Week host revealed her longtime friend and former Dawson's Creek co-star's wise words, saying, 'The best piece of parenting advice I ever received was actually from my best friend, Michelle Williams, that when you have to have a really uncomfortable conversation with your kids, do it in the car.'
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'Because they're trapped and you're trapped, and you can also just focus on the road, and they don't have to look at you if they're embarrassed.'
Williams is a mom to 19-year-old Matilda with her late ex, Heath Ledger, as well as sharing three younger children with her now-husband, Thomas Kail.
Philipps, meanwhile, is a mom to 16-year-old daughter Birdie and 11-year-old daughter Cricket with her ex-husband Marc Silverstein. So it's safe to say that she's looking to Williams for help with parenting teens!
Philipps also opened up about some of the challenges of raising her daughters, saying, 'It's really hard. Just knowing and trusting that you've done the job that you needed to do, so that they are safe and make good choices, and if they don't that they feel like they can either come to you or somebody close.'
Philipps and Williams met in 2001 when Philipps was cast as Audrey Liddell in Dawson's Creek. Fans of the teen show will remember that Williams played Jen Lindley for all six seasons. The duo recently opened up about their first time meeting in a May 21 episode of Philipps' QVC+ show.
'My entire life I've always been like, misunderstood and prejudged by people,' Philipps said. 'And for whatever reason, you just instantly were like, 'I got you.''
'I loved you,' Williams added
'We just know each other and get each other in such a deep, fundamental way at this point,' Philipps told Page Six of their friendship in a March interview, adding that they've 'been there' for each other 'through so many different moments in each other's lives.'
'When you have a friend like that, you're blessed,' she told the outlet. 'That's all you can really ever hope for in this life.'Best of SheKnows
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