A mother later she landed a role in a Barbie doll commercial and by the time she was 14, the teenager, who attended Fairfax High School in LA, was starring in That ‘70s show, which aired in the US from 1998 to 2006.
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While Katie, then eight, and Alex, ten, looked to their grandmother for warmth and security, she gained a profound sense of purpose from them. ‘They gave me such joy, because through them I felt I was with Jo,' she says now.
‘I would have felt traumatised if it had not been for the children.'
The actress embraced America and in 2014, when speaking to the Star-Ledger, she even suggested she no longer identified with Ukraine after being asked about nation's 2014 conflict, according to the Russian-backed separatist forces took over parts of southeastern Ukraine's Donbas region during that year, and Russia annexed Crimea.
Diana recalls she prevented these feelings from taking hold in her grandchildren by repeating to them that there was nothing they could have done to help their mother — ‘not when their father was so consumed with hatred, there was no stopping him'.
Mila with her parents Mark and Elvira in May 2013 in London. Her father did various jobs when first making it to the US - including painting houses, installing toilets and delivering pizza - while her mother worked in the back room of a Thrifty drugstore
'We are so overwhelmed and humbled by the amount of love, support and kindness we have received, and thanks to the generosity of you all, our journey to bring Alex home is now underway,' Ms Shorey-Kitson wrote.
Born Milena Markovna Kunis, Mila comes from a Jewish family and moved to Los Angeles from Ukraine, when she was seven years old, alongside her father Mark, a mechanical engineer, and mother Elvira, a physics teacher, and her brother Michael.
Born Milena Markovna Kunis, Mila comes from a Jewish family and moved to Los Angeles from Ukraine, when she was seven years old, alongside her father Mark, a mechanical engineer, and mother Elvira, a physics teacher, and her brother Michael.
‘I felt incredibly upset that, while they were playing in a den he had helped them build, this man could be contemplating their mother's murder.
It was deplorable, just horrendous, that he could be so callous and calculating — and to think that he was ready to leave the children without a mother.
'We have attempted three flights over the past few weeks, each one of them cancelled as Alex's condition deteriorated further just prior to depature as the poison worked through his body causing further complications,' they wrote in an update.
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Sarah Burrows, whose charity Children Heard And Seen is collaborating with the Joanna Simpson Foundation, says this is ‘crucial': ‘There needs to be more support for children who have witnessed their parents hurting each other to process conflicting emotions and thoughts, including guilt, fear, sadness, shame, anger and worrying about being unable to protect Mother.'
With their divorce within a week of being finalised, Jo's husband had attacked and killed her at their home. Afterwards, Brown removed the CCTV recorder and pulled out the telephone cable, then put her body in the boot of his Volvo 4x4.
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Now, the safe haven she worked so hard to build could be put in jeopardy by their father's release from prison. It is an outcome she dreads. ‘As long as I am breathing, I will do my best to protect the family,' she says.
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But aged only seven-years-old, her Jewish family fled the then Soviet Union state and travelled to the US, with Mila citing antisemitism as one of the reasons they left. Pictured, Mila with her mother and brother as a child in the US
