Mena Suvari is opening up about how her own history with sexual abuse has impacted the way she approaches parenting her 4-year-old son, Christopher.

“I just feel like I always want to be present, and really supportive of anything that he wants to do or pursue,” Suvari, 46, exclusively told Us Weekly while discussing her work with Childhelp. “I really think what’s important is just being able to have conversations around things and acknowledge things, because life is life, and it’s messy, and it comes in so many different ways. There’s so many things that we go through, and trauma is very real. And so with my son, what I want to communicate is that there’s always room to talk about anything, and that you can find your way through that and learn through that.”

Suvari, who shares Christophe

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