thank you for watching my Channel Please Subscribe and like now back to the news Heather Graham has opened up about becoming completely EST strange from her parents adding that she's proud of where she's at right now the model in Austin Powers actress 54 said she became as strange from her mom and dad after they warned her about the dangers of Hollywood in an interview with the Wall Street Journal Graham revealed that she left home at 18 to try her luck of making it big in the entertainment industry he rly told me that the entertainment industry was evil and that wood would claim my soul she said the former model said her parents were part of a generation that didn't believe in therapy or discussing personal things so I never felt I could talk to them after landing her first role in the 1988 film license to drive Graham knew it was time for her to move out and begin living alone when the movie came out I was 18 living at home had become more difficult she explained I said to myself I've got to get out of here I've got to be successful and I've got to be a movie star I found an apartment in West Hollywood with another girl from high school a working model who was also investing in real estate on the side living with her was freeing she added Graham explained that after her family relocated from Virginia to agara Hills calf when she was just nine she battled with losing her popular status at school and becoming an outcast on the west coast in Virginia I had a tomboy phase and loved exploring the woods after we move I was isolated you had to be driven everywhere without kids to play with in the street I had few social interactions and grew insecure I turned to books and read above my level she told the outlet Graham graduated from high school with a 5.0 GPA and enrolled at UCLA to study English after her junior year at the University she decided to drop out a focus on her acting career at this time Graham landed major rolls in the film's Austin Powers and swingers which made her realize she was self-sufficient and she began to reevaluate a relationship with her parents I stopped talking to my parents when I was 25 and I'm estranged from them now Graham said my friends are proud of me and I'm proud of myself I have really good friends The Hangover actress admits that she's proud of the life she's built I live in Los Angeles in a house I bought last year I also have a loft in New York she said noting that her West Coast home has views of the Pacific