Sharon Stone kept mom's death secret so she could process her feelings
Hollywood actress Sharon Stone has revealed she kept her mother's death secret for months because she wanted to be able to process her feelings in private.
Sharon Stone kept her mother's death secret for months because she wanted to be able to process her feelings in private.
The Basic Instinct star went public with the sad news in July - four months after Dorothy passed away in March at the age of 91 - and Sharon has now revealed she wanted time to grieve before she told the world about the family tragedy.
She told the Guardian newspaper: "Mom, Dot, actually died a few months ago, but I was only ready to tell the public about it now because I always get my mad feelings first when people die ...
"[It was] a little bit of anger and a little bit of: ‘I didn’t f****** need you anyway,' you know! ...
"Mom wasn’t of a sunny disposition. She was hilarious, but she said terrible things to me. Dot swore like a Portuguese dock worker."
Sharon went on to reveal the last few days of her mother's life were tough as she battled "delirium".
She explained: "[Mom] said: "I’m going to kick you in the c***,’ to me probably 40 times in the last five days. But that was her delirium.
"And when the last thing your mother says to you before she dies is: ‘You talk too much, you make me want to commit suicide,’ and the whole rooms laughs, you think: that’s a hard one to go out on, Mom!
"But that’s how she was. This lack of ability to find tenderness and peace within herself ...
"She was desperately afraid that when she died her mother and father would be there. She didn’t want to die, because she didn’t want to see them, because they were so awful.
"So I convinced her that I had put them in jail and they were not going to be there. She was in such hell. Nobody comes through this life intact. So why do we pretend that one does?”
Sharon previously confirmed her mom's death in an emotional social media post, which read: "My hilarious, complex mother died. A product of the last depression, let's NOT do this again. Let's protect and care."
The Hollywood star previously described her mother's parenting style as "tough" and explained that feminism was among "the rules of my household".
Speaking at the Zurich Film Festival in 2021, Sharon recalled asking Dorothy: "Why (do) you never let me lean on you?' She said: 'Because I taught you to stand on your two goddamn feet.'"
However, the actress explained that she later came to appreciate the tough love from her mother.
Sharon said: "She gave me the most loving, the most concerted thing a mother can give another woman. I didn't understand it when I was young, but at 15, in college, and later modelling in New York and Milan, it became a gift."
