Still, it’s been bittersweet to hit so many milestones with her not-so-little ones.
“I just was like writing something for the end of the school year thing for them to put in the program at the graduation,” she continued. “And I just have not, like every time it comes up I just start crying. I could cry right now.”
Indeed, the Maid in Manhattan actress emphasized it’s been an emotional time for her.
“It’s been the three of us,” she explained. “People have come in and out of my life, but it’s been the three of us. They’ve always been there, and I’ve always been there.”
But she won’t let her sadness get in the way of her excitement for her kids’ new chapter.
“I remember being that age and thinking I couldn’t wait to get out in the world and do my thing,” she said during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in May. “I really wanted that. All year people are asking me, ‘Oh they’re going away to college it’s going to be terrible.’ No, it’s going to be great.”
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