There is not any doubt who Ashton Kutcher is siding with following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“I stand with Ukraine,” he tweeted Thursday.
He additionally retweeted a picture of the Ukrainian flag.
Mila Kunis, Kutcher’s former That ’70s Present co-star and his spouse since 2015, was born in Ukraine when it was nonetheless a part of the previous Soviet Union. Then, when she was 7, her household moved to the US.
Kunis would not use social media, and she or he hasn’t commented on the present scenario, however over time she has spoken about her time within the nation.
In July 2016, she advised Conan host Conan O’Brien how her mother and father mentioned that the household was simply transferring to a different place close by moderately than an entire different nation.
“After which someday, we weren’t transferring up the road,” Kunis recounted. “We had been on a practice, and I used to be like, ‘Whoa, we’re on a practice. The place are we going?’ After which we obtained to Moscow after which we obtained on a airplane, and all of that was very new to me. Like, a practice was new. The airplane was new. I had Coca-Cola for the primary time. Your complete expertise was very new.”
Kunis, who has famous that she misplaced members of the family within the Holocaust, mentioned such a transfer was not talked about with others.
“At that time, it was nonetheless, like, on the fall of communism, and we got here [on] a refugee visa,” Kunis mentioned. “It simply wasn’t one thing you flaunted.”
It definitely wasn’t one thing you wished a toddler to share.
“I did not even know what America was,” Kunis mentioned. “I used to be like, ‘What may I’ve executed?’ They usually’re like, ‘Mentioned the phrase America.’ And I used to be like, ‘Effectively, that is true.'”
The actress additionally has defined why they made the transfer.
“These days, if in case you have cash you assume Moscow or wherever is nice,” she advised The Telegraph in September 2011. “However that’s not the fact of the Russia I grew up with. My mother and father each had superb jobs, and I used to be very fortunate. We weren’t poor after we lived in Russia, whereas most individuals had been very unlucky. My mother and father thought that my brother and I might haven’t any future there, although, so we moved to the US.”
Nevertheless, their relocation meant that Kunis’s mother and father needed to begin over professionally. They entered the nation with simply $250.
“That was it. That was all we had been allowed to take with us,” Kunis mentioned. “My mother and father had given up good jobs and levels, which weren’t transferable. We arrived in New York on a Wednesday and by Friday morning my brother and I had been at college in L.A.”
As soon as the household arrived, her mother and father labored a number of jobs to supply for Kunis, who did not know English, and her brother.
“It should have been horrifying as a result of I blocked it out,” she mentioned of her early days in America. “I haven’t got any recollections. Apparently, my mother and father inform me, I cried each morning and after I got here again from faculty. Once I wrote my essay for school, it was about imagining what it was like being blind and deaf on the age of seven, as a result of that is what it felt like.”
She and Kutcher now share two youngsters of their very own: daughter Wyatt, 7, and 5-year-old son Dimitri.
