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Lucy Liu is grateful to share so many life lessons with her son, Rockwell.
“My son is really my teacher. He is my greatest teacher and I am a student,” the actress, 55, told Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager during a Thursday, November 14, appearance on the Today show. “Everything that you have calcified in your life as a grown-up or a person going through the experience of life kind of breaks open and starts cracking once you have a child because you learn these things don’t work.”
Liu explained that one quality she believes parents must have is the ability to maintain their composure — even during the most stressful times.
“When you have a child or a family, you have to change the dimension of how you think and you feel and how you react,” she said. “Because there can be a lot of triggering moments.”
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However, Liu acknowledged that if a person doesn’t handle the situation with grace at the time, they still have a chance to correct the action and learn from it.
“Then you discover you can repair those moments even if you didn’t use your words the best in that moment,” she explained. “You can say, ‘I can do better,’ and that’s a huge thing because it’s granting you forgiveness as a human being and as a parent.”
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Liu welcomed Rockwell, 8, via surrogate in 2015. Before making the decision to start her family, Liu confessed that she didn’t give it much thought until someone complimented her warmhearted nature.
“It was just something somebody mentioned to me when I was working,” she admitted. “They said, ‘Oh you’re such a nurturing person, you’re so caring.’ They said, ‘You’d be such a great mother,’ and I said, ‘Oh that’s so sweet’ and I didn’t think about it again but it sat with me.”
After hearing the person’s praise, Liu started to look at herself in a “different way.” The Charlie’s Angels star realized that becoming a mom was something she could see for herself.
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“I realize being a mother or being a caregiver is somebody thinking outside the box and just there and present. I thought, ‘I could do that, I could be present,’” she said. “So that’s when I discovered that this is something I’m going to pursue. It was really not something that I thought about my entire life until that moment.”
While Liu has primarily kept Rockwell out of the public eye, she has given fans a glimpse at life with her son. Earlier this year, Liu shared that Rockwell doesn’t have a clear picture of what his mom’s job entails.
“He’s still young, age-wise. He’s not quite understanding [of what I do],” she exclusively told Us Weekly in May. “As far as he knows, I’ve done voiceovers for characters and that’s really cool. But some of the things that I’ve done, I don’t think he’s [ready]. He hasn’t seen any live action yet, let’s put it that way.”
