Sofia Coppola is framing Romy's online presence as a "persona" and performance art — suggesting these stories are entertainment, not autobiography. The implication: don't take it literally.
The internet is screaming about child neglect. A babysitter giving an 11-year-old weed isn't quirky — it's potentially criminal. People are questioning what kind of 'care' Sofia's kids actually received.
Romy Mars is 19 now, but claims the weed incident happened when she was 11. She directly quoted herself saying: "We smoked together on the fire escape and talked about her boyfriend's mommy issues until I fell asleep." Her viral helicopter story dates back to 2023.
This isn't a cute 'privileged kid' story — this is allegations of a child being given illegal drugs by an adult caregiver. Sofia's "persona" defense might not be enough to cool this one down.
Romy Mars just dropped what might be the most shocking revelation yet from the Coppola dynasty — and that's saying something. The 19-year-old, eldest daughter of director Sofia Coppola and Phoenix frontman Thomas Mars, claims in a TikTok video that one of her babysitters gave her marijuana when she was just 11 years old.
The claim came as a response to a TikTok user who joked that Romy was "written by" Sofia — implying her online persona was scripted by her famous mother. But Romy set the record straight, revealing she was largely raised by a rotating cast of babysitters, which she described as "many different women in their 20s." And apparently at least one of those women had some very questionable judgment. According to Romy, the babysitter offered her the illicit substance before bed, and they "smoked together on the fire escape and talked about her boyfriend's mommy issues until I fell asleep." That's not a babysitter — that's a drug dealer with childcare responsibilities.
Here's where it gets even more interesting. Sofia JUST came out in full support of her daughter's online presence, telling Elle that Romy's online persona is a "persona" and that "she's a performer in a way that's really fun for me to see." So the question now is: does Sofia know about this particular story? Is it also part of the "persona," or is this actual receipts from Romy's childhood? The timing is... something.
This isn't the first time Romy has gone viral for stories about her chaotic upbringing. One of her earliest viral moments came in 2023 when she shared a story about being grounded for trying to charter a helicopter from New York to Maryland just to get dinner. But this latest revelation is in an entirely different league — we're not talking about helicopter privileges, we're talking about an adult giving a fifth-grader weed. The internet is already spiraling, and honestly? They're right to.
Romy may be 19 now and free to share whatever she wants, but the details she's revealing about her childhood raise serious questions about what was actually happening behind the scenes in the Coppola-Mars household. One thing's for sure — this story is just getting started.
