United Kingdom, Feb. 9 -- Cynthia Erivo "doesn't think about" her estranged father very much.

The 38-year-old actress hasn't spoken to her dad since he left the family more than 20 years ago but it is only now that she is in a place where she feels "empathy" towards him.

Speaking on 'CBS Sunday Morning', she explained: "I don't necessarily think about him too much, only that I wish him well.

"I think you have to have empathy for people and I wasn't always in that place. When I was a teenager, I was angry at what that relationship was."

The 'Wicked' star - who grew up in London with her mother and sister and later attended RADA - explained that her "fractured relationship" with her father originally gave her the motivation to go on and...