During the '90s, the two made an attempt at a relationship. Hopkins got Abigail, an actress and singer in her own right, roles in two of his films, Shadowlands and The Remains Of This Day (via The Daily Mail). But as of 2002, Hopkins was again describing them as "estranged."
"I guess we are estranged. I don't think she wants to know very much [about me]. I hope she is well. I hope she is okay," he told Howard Stern (via Hello!). "The divorce with her mother was [a] long time ago. She has probably got good reasons. She is too busy and all that. She has to do her own thing. I think she is in England somewhere. Life is life. You get on with it."
In 2020, during interviews surrounding his film The Father, Hopkins was again asked about Abigail and if he knew of having any grandchildren. "I don't have any idea," he told the Radio Times (per The Telegraph). "People break up. Families split and, you know, 'Get on with your life.' People make choices. I don't care one way or the other."
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