Sharon Stone reveals mother's brutal final words to her were 'hard' to take

Daily Mirror

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Sharon Stone has spoken in depth in recent years about her mother's relationship with other members of her family and the impact of that on her
Renowned Hollywood film actress Sharon Stone has spoken about her mother's final words and the impact they had on her.
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Earlier this year, Sharon announced that her mother Dot had died. Making the statement on Instagram, Sharon later revealed that she made the announcement a few months after her mother's actual death in order to process the event.
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During an interview with the Guardian, Sharon went into further detail about her mother's final months and how her family handled what she described as 'delirium' during her family member's illness.
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Sharon went further as to say what her mother's final words to her were. She said: '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.'
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Sharon also spoke about her mother's fears about death towards the end of her life and how her mother was afraid to see her own relatives because of how they had treated her physically during her life.
In Sharon's 2021 memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice, she claims her mother was beaten regularly by her maternal grandfather.
She said: '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.
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'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?'
Throughout her career, Sharon has been in a series of iconic films including Basic Instinct, Total Recall, and Casino. This year she is in Nobody 2 in which she plays a crime boss, a role she says she relished and used an unusual source to take inspiration from.
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She said: 'I don't want to play villains unless they touch the zeitgeist. So I wanted this villain to feel as if she came out of social media, because that is the most scary thing right now.'
Sharon's comments around social media come as government's around the world begin to put more pressure on social media firms to protect their users, especially children.
The UK's Online Safety Act is one example of a country taking action to try and protect users with Sky reporting that the country could go further and introduce screentime limits for children.
Technology Secretary Peter Kyle told the broadcaster: 'I am looking very carefully about the overall time kids spend on these apps.
"I think some parents feel a bit disempowered about how to actually make their kids healthier online. We talk a lot about a healthy childhood offline. We need to do the same online.'