On January 12, 2001, Roberts visited "The Howard Stern Radio Show" with his wife, actress Eliza Roberts, during a segment called "The Gossip Game" with Mike Walker of the "National Enquirer." He confirmed that he and his sister, Julia, had been estranged for several years. The source of the estrangement had been his past drug abuse and her siding with his ex-girlfriend over the custody of his daughter. In 2004, he told "People" magazine that he and his sister reconciled when he visited her in the hospital after she gave birth to twins.