Sharon Stone recently opened up about her complex relationship with her maternal grandfather and the feelings of emptiness she experienced after his death on an episode of All There Is with Anderson Cooper podcast.
In her memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice, published in 2021, Stone wrote that she felt “glee and relief and emptiness” following her grandfather’s demise. She described him as not just a granddad but a creature to be avoided at all costs due to his abusive behavior towards her mother and siblings.
Stone also claimed in her book that both she and her sister Kelly were abused by their grandfather. Cooper quipped, “It’s a very weird thing when you’re a kid and the first experience of death is glee and relief and emptiness.”
At 14 and 11 respectively at the time of his death, Stone and her sister Kelly felt no ‘gentle caring’ or ‘hand-holding’ during their grandfather’s service. They relieved themselves by checking if he was dead when they reached into his coffin.
Stone recalled this moment as a “weird sense of emptiness — good emptiness,” forever etched in her mind, she shared.