Katherine Heigl thinks talking to her daughter about racism will “break a piece of her beautiful divine spirit”

George died last week after a police officer - who has since been arrested on charges of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, and sacked from the force - knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes, and Katherine says she doesn’t know how to explain that to her young daughter.

Writing on Instagram, the ‘Ugly Truth’ star said: “I can’t sleep. And when I do I wake with a single thought in my head. How will I tell Adalaide? How will I explain the unexplainable? How can I protect her? How can I break a piece of her beautiful divine spirit to do so?

“I can’t sleep. I lay in my bed in the dark and weep for every mother of a beautiful divine black child who has to extinguish a piece of their beloved baby’s spirit to try to keep them alive in a country that has too many sleeping soundly. Eyes squeezed shut. Images and cries and pleas and pain banished from their minds. White bubbles strong and intact. But I lay awake. Finally. Painfully. (sic)”

Katherine - who also has adopted daughter Naleigh, 11, and biological son Joshua, three, with her husband Josh Kelley - went on to say she feels “hopeless”, but knows she must speak out for the sake of her brood.

She added: “My white bubble though always with me now begins to bleed. Because I have a black daughter. Because I have a Korean daughter. Because I have a Korean sister and nephews and niece. It has taken me far too long to truly internalize the reality of the abhorrent, evil despicable truth of racism.

“And now I weep. Because what should have changed by now, by then, forever ago still is. Hopelessness is seeping in. Fear that there is nothing I can do, like a slow moving poison, is spreading through me. Then I look at my daughters. My sister. My nephews and niece. George Floyd. Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. The hundreds, thousands millions more we haven’t even heard about. I look and the fear turns to something else. The sorrow warms and then bursts into flames of rage. (sic)”