--- title: Melanie Griffith Talks Addiction, Divorce, Plastic Surgery description: Find out what Melanie Griffith told Porter Magazine about raising her children with an addiction and her split from Antonio Banderas. canonical: https://time.com/4726332/melanie-griffith-addiction-divorce-plastic-surgery/ author: Samantha Cooney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-05T15:58:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:05:22.216Z og:title: Melanie Griffith Spoke Candidly About Addiction, Divorce and Plastic Surgery og:description: 'I was a totally functioning mom’ og:url: https://time.com/4726332/melanie-griffith-addiction-divorce-plastic-surgery/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68a1c5305d4565df/6988c16a97cdff2be96b017b/melanie-griffith-addiction-porter.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Equality Now's 3rd Annual "Make Equality Reality" Gala - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Melanie Griffith Spoke Candidly About Addiction, Divorce and Plastic Surgery twitter:description: 'I was a totally functioning mom’ twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68a1c5305d4565df/6988c16a97cdff2be96b017b/melanie-griffith-addiction-porter.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Melanie Griffith Spoke Candidly About Addiction, Divorce and Plastic Surgery  by [Samantha Cooney](/author/samantha-cooney/)  ## Samantha Cooney Apr 5, 2017 3:58 PM CUT  BEVERLY HILLS, CA - DECEMBER 05: Actress Melanie Griffith attends Equality Now's 3rd annual "Make Equality Reality" gala at Montage Beverly Hills on December 5, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic) BEVERLY HILLS, CA - DECEMBER 05: Actress Melanie Griffith attends Equality Now's 3rd annual "Make Equality Reality" gala at Montage Beverly Hills on December 5, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic)Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic  by [Samantha Cooney](/author/samantha-cooney/)  ## Samantha Cooney Apr 5, 2017 3:58 PM CUT Academy Award-nominated actress Melanie Griffith, 59, recently opened up to [_Porter_](https://www.portersubscription.com/?prom=PTRFN "undefined")magazine about motherhood, addiction and cosmetic surgery. The _Working Girl_ star shared how she coped with raising her three children — Alexander Bauer, Stella Banderas and actress [Dakota Johnson](http://time.com/4167484/dakota-johnson-hollywood-ageism-fifty-shades-of-grey-criticism/ "undefined") — while battling a [dependency on drugs and alcohol](http://people.com/celebrity/inside-story-melanie-griffiths-struggle-with-addiction/ "undefined") for which she sought treatment in 1996, 2000 and 2009\. “I was a totally functioning mom,” she told _Porter_, according to [_Vanity Fair_](http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/04/melanie-griffith-plastic-surgery-addiction-warren-beatty "undefined"). “I wasn’t like a drunk-on-the-floor, out-of-it person,” she said. “I didn’t do some things I probably should have done but, mostly, I was there for my kids.” As for her changing appearance, Griffith said she wasn’t aware how far she’d gone with plastic surgery until people started commenting, “Oh my god, what has she done?!” That’s when the actress decided to visit a new doctor in order to dissolve “all of this sh\*t that this other woman doctor had put in.” She added, “Hopefully, I look more normal now.” And since the end of her [18-year marriage to Antonio Banderas](http://people.com/celebrity/melanie-griffith-divorcing-antonio-banderas/ "undefined"), Griffith said she hasn’t been on a date yet, but [said](https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2017/04/04/melanie-griffith-cosmetic-surgery-hopefully-look-more-normal-now/100027724/ "undefined"), according to _USA Today,_ “I’m shy with men now, very reticent. Nobody has asked me on a date. I go out with my girlfriends.” \[H/T [_Vanity Fair_](http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/04/melanie-griffith-plastic-surgery-addiction-warren-beatty "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4726332/melanie-griffith-addiction-divorce-plastic-surgery/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4726332/melanie-griffith-addiction-divorce-plastic-surgery/"},"headline":"Melanie Griffith Spoke Candidly About Addiction, Divorce and Plastic Surgery","datePublished":"2017-04-05T15:58:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:05:22.216Z","description":"'I was a totally functioning mom’","url":"https://time.com/4726332/melanie-griffith-addiction-divorce-plastic-surgery/","keywords":["motto","motherhood","relationships","Love","Addiction"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68a1c5305d4565df/6988c16a97cdff2be96b017b/melanie-griffith-addiction-porter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Cooney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-cooney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68a1c5305d4565df/6988c16a97cdff2be96b017b/melanie-griffith-addiction-porter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Equality Now's 3rd Annual \"Make Equality Reality\" Gala - Arrivals","caption":"Equality Now's 3rd Annual \"Make Equality Reality\" Gala - Arrivals","creditText":"Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4726332/melanie-griffith-addiction-divorce-plastic-surgery/","name":"Melanie Griffith Spoke Candidly About Addiction, Divorce and Plastic Surgery"}}]}] ```