Sharon Stone opens up about 'relief' she felt when abusive grandfather died

Bang Showbiz on Jun 26, 2026

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Sharon Stone 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.

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 Basic Instinct star 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 in 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.

She mused: "I finally realized, I have to let go. I need to stop walking in the room. I need to go upstairs and ignore my mother so she will die.

"I need to detach and release, and she's only going to die if I let go."

Sharon previously revealed that she only came forward about the abuse she suffered at the hands of her grandfather after she and Kelly agreed to do so together.