Soleil Moon Frye’s divorce is causing her to once again find her inner “Punky Power”.
The former “Punky Brewster” star says that staying optimistic – like her character on the ’80s sitcom – and focusing on the good times of her more than 20-year marriage to husband Jason Goldberg is helping her to overcome the breakup.
“For me, I’m very grateful for the life I’ve had,” she told Page Six. “For the beautiful children I have and I see the amount of years that I have been able to share as a celebration. You don’t spend 22 years with someone and you don’t celebrate. “
She said that even though she is a woman getting divorced in her 40s, she still tries to live up to her former character’s “Punky Power” catchphrase.
“So I think that, for both Punky and me, this is where we both came from,” said Frye. “It is a place of love.”
In 2020, the “Punky Brewster” star announced that she and Goldberg were breaking up after 22 years of marriage. In December, she filed for divorce.
Frye married Goldberg, a producer who usually works with Ashton Kutcher, in 1998.
They share four sons: daughters Poetisa Sienna, 15, and Jagger Joseph, 13, and sons Lyric Sonny, 7, and Story, 4.
She appeared in the public eye as the lively title character on the NBC program at the age of 7 in 1984.
The show was canceled in 1988 after four seasons, but has now been restarted and is being broadcast on Peacock. She admits that playing Punky is not very difficult.
“I really don’t know where Punky ends and I start because we are very similar in many ways,” she explained. “I think it’s an interesting thing, life imitating art, art imitating life.”
Moon Frye also has the documentary “Kid 90” streaming on Hulu, a moving portrait of young Hollywood stars growing up in the 1990s that uses hundreds of hours of footage captured by the actress, who recorded everything.
In it, she revealed that Charlie Sheen was her first “consensual” sexual experience and compares him to the character Mr. Big from “Sex and the City”.
In the documentary, Frye reads a diary entry dated December 18, 1994, about how she spent the day with Sheen.
“It was the strangest and most incredible day ever,” she wrote. “He’s someone I have a crush on for years. He is a person who intrigues and excites me. “
Still in the documentary, she reveals that, at the age of 17, an unnamed man sexually assaulted her, which left her with “shame and pain” later.