Sarah Jessica Parker hits back at harsh remarks on her bold role
The actress confessed the flaws of her ‘Sex and the City’ character, but also called her "loyal, decent, reliable, and a really good friend"
June 19, 2025
Sarah Jessica Parker clapped back at critics, making 'selfish' comments on her Sex and the City character Carrie Bradshaw
In a recent chat on the latest episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, the 60-year-old actress opened up about how much she is proud of herself for playing the bold role in the series that began in 1998.
“First of all, the way she was speaking, like her choice of language, I'd never seen or heard a woman talk like that,” she said of Carrie Bradshaw's “curiosity about sex and sexual politics.”
“Which is not like me — I don't talk about that at all even with friends,” Parker continued. “I'll talk about it globally, but I don't sit and share intimate details of my life that way.”
The Hocus Pocus star reprised the role in 2021 for the spinoff series And Just Like That…
“I admired that she was scrappy,” Parker remarked. “She was a little survivor. She had instincts to keep her head [up], not always making smart choices and falling short of being the best friend or the best girlfriend or her best self, but I also was very happy that they were writing her that way.”
Calling out people who called Carrie Bradshaw "selfish" and poor decision-maker, Parker admitted, "Yeah, all of that has been true over the course of the last 25 years. But she's also been hugely loyal, decent, reliable, a really good friend, generous, available, present, comforting, giving of herself in big, in small ways, that are private and public, to her and among her friends. And, she loves.”
