Chloë Sevigny reveals the ‘hardest’ part of motherhood and working through ‘irrational fears’

Chloë Sevigny admits she struggles with guilt when she has to leave her 3-year-old son for work.

“The hardest part [of motherhood] is being away and not feeling guilty,” the actress told Page Six at the “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” premiere earlier this week.

“I’m trying to work through that,” she added, “and irrational fears, [they’re] the worst … Micro-stresses, the worst!”

Despite her “irrational fears,” Sevigny, 49, calls every day with her son, Vanja, “a joy.”

It’s not the first time Sevigny has confessed to feeling torn when she goes to work.

Chloë Sevigny gave birth to her son Vanja in May 2020. Chloe Sevigny/Instagram

“I could cry just thinking about the fact that I’m a damn actress and my career has to pay our mortgage,” she shared in a 2022 interview with the Independent.

“I mean, I can’t complain. I’m very privileged, but there is something enviable about the nine-to-fivers when you have a kid,” she continued. “I’m trying to navigate the mom guilt, but it’s pretty daunting.”

The actress, 49, welcomed Vanja in May 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sevigny shares Vanja with husband Sinisa Mackovic. GC Images

“Welcome to the world,” she captioned a snap of her and husband Sinisa Mackovic cuddling with their newborn.

“Thank you to all the staff at Mt. Sinai East for your bravery, perseverance and kindness, especially the nurses for being so gentle and patient,” she wrote, adding, “Blessings to all the other families giving birth during this time.

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The Oscar nominee secretly married Mackovic, an art gallery owner, two months before Vanja’s birth at a New York City courthouse.

The actress can currently be seen in the new miniseries “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.” Getty Images

Two years later they tied the knot again in front of friends and family during a traditional church service.

Sevigny can currently be seen playing socialite C.Z. Guest in the upcoming FX miniseries, “Feud,” which tells the story of acclaimed author Truman Capote’s beef with a group of socialites.

The coterie of blue-bloods felt betrayed by Capote’s thinly disguised unflattering portrayals of them in an excerpted chapter from his unfinished novel, “Answered Prayers,” prompting nearly all of them to never socialize with him again.

Guest was the only “swan” who continued speaking to Capote.

Sevigny plays socialite C.Z. Guest in the series. PARI DUKOVIC PHOTOGRAPHY The show also features Naomi Watts, Molly Ringwald, Demi Moore and Calista Flockhart. Steven Bergman/AFF-USA.COM / MEGA

Sevigny theorized that Guest may have kept in contact because she “came from money and wasn’t as much of a fighter as [the other socialites].

“She had a different kind of air of privilege to her. She didn’t just marry into wealth, she came from wealth.”

Other celebs at the glittery premiere included castmates Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald, Naomi Watts, Diane Lane and “White Lotus” star Tom Hollander, who plays Capote.

The afterparty took place at The Plaza Hotel, the site of Capote’s legendary 1966 Black and White Ball.