Sharon Stone speaks up about ‘relief’ she felt when abusive grandfather died

Los Angeles, June 27 (IANS) Hollywood actress Sharon Stone has opened up a deeply private chapter from her life. The actress said that she felt “glee and relief” when her abusive grandfather died.

The 68-year-old actress opened up on the All There Is with Anderson Cooper podcast, as she reflected on how she and sister Kelly felt when their maternal grandfather, who sexually abused them as children, passed away in 2001, reports ‘Female First UK’.

She previously wrote about her mixed emotions in her book The Beauty of Living Twice, with host Anderson reading out, “It’s a very weird thing when you’re a kid and the first experience you have of death is glee and relief and emptiness”.

Sharon appeared to be struggling to control her emotions as she told Anderson, “He was an abuser who abused my mom and did everything he could possibly do to get near us to be abusive of us. And he was not a grandfather, he was a creature that we tried to avoid at all costs”.

The actress was 14 when her grandfather died, with her sister aged 11. Sharon added that while there is usually a “gentle, caring” atmosphere at funerals, there was “none of that” at his service.

Instead, she and her sister went over to the coffin when Shraron’s sibling asked her “are we sure he’s dead?”, begging her to “check”.

Sharon recalled, “I reached in and shoved him in the shoulder, and he was stiff and didn’t move, and I went, ‘Yeah.’ And I think I said, ‘It’s over’. And I think we still backed off”.

As for her feelings at that moment, she said, “It will be a picture in my mind forever of that weird sense of emptiness, good emptiness. It’s over.” Elsewhere in the interview, Sharon opened up about saying a final goodbye to her mum Dorothy, who died in July 2025.

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