Mila Kunis Talks To Maria Shriver About Invasion Of Ukraine: ‘I Feel Like A Part Of My Heart Just Got Ripped Out’

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Mila Kunis’s heart has been broken by the crisis in Ukraine. The actress, whose family fled from Soviet Ukraine in the 1980s when she was a child, has partnered with her husband Ashton Kutcher in an attempt to raise $30 million to support Ukrainians fleeing from Russia’s invasion. READ MORE: Leonardo DiCaprio Donates To ‘Several’ Foundations Supporting Ukraine In an interview premiering this Sunday, Kunis sits down with Maria Shriver on her show “Conversations Above the Noise” to talk about her Ukrainian heritage, her fundraising effort, and more. “I very much have always felt like an American… People were like, ‘Oh, you’re so Eastern European.’ I was like, ‘I’m so L.A.!'” Kunis says in a preview of the interview. “This happens and I can’t express or explain what came over me, but all of a sudden I was like, ‘Oh my God, I feel like a part of my heart just got ripped out.’ It was the weirdest feeling.” Kunis also talks about why she has often said publicly that she is Russian, rather than Ukrainian. “I turned to my kids and I was like, ‘You are half-Ukrainian, half-American!’ I literally was like, ‘Look, you!’ And my kids were like, ‘Yeah mom, I get it.’ And I was like, ‘No!

You are Ukrainian and American.’ I was like, ‘You are half-Iowa, half-Ukraine.’ And they’re like, ‘Okay, I get it,'” she says. “It’s been irrelevant to me that I come from Ukraine.

It never mattered. So much so that I’ve always said I’m Russian, right? Like I’ve always been, ‘I’m from Russia’ for a multitude of reasons…” READ MORE: Ukraine Morning Show Host Broadcasts From Bomb Shelter Talking about the current crisis, Kunis says, “I don’t think that we need to consider the people of Russia an enemy.