Sharon Stone's (68) grief over her late mother Dorothy was extremely complex. This was also due to the relationship the two had with each other, as the actress explains in the podcast "All There Is with Anderson Cooper". Her mother's death was also very difficult.
A mirror of self-hatred
"My mother often behaved as if she didn't like me at all", Stone recounts. Only after many therapy sessions did the actress understand that it was a "mirror of her own self-hatred". Her mother had had a terrible childhood and experienced a lot of abuse. Stone explains that her mother was angry and probably envious of her own daughter because Sharon had educational opportunities that she herself never had. Due to the abuse, Dorothy was sent to another family at the age of nine, where she had to take care of countless things as a sort of "servant".
Stone had cared for her mother in her home before she passed away. Dorothy talked about all her traumas from her childhood. "And she was panicked about dying because she was afraid that her parents would be there", the 68-year-old recalls. "So I had to lie to her and tell her that her father was in prison and her mother was in a psychiatric institution and that they wouldn't be there. That she could die safely."
Sharon Stone had to let go
On the night Dorothy finally passed away, according to Sharon Stone, she "really fought". At some point, the actress understood that she herself had to let go. She couldn't keep checking on her own mother. "I have to go upstairs and ignore my mother so she can die", Stone thought to herself.
However, this letting go was very difficult for her. "I wanted her to say: 'I'm proud of you. I love you. I'm sorry. You matter to me.'" Stone tears up in the conversation with Anderson Cooper (59) as she talks about how she would never hear that. She had to make her peace with the fact "that my mother won't do that".
When someone wanted to get Stone because her mother was dying, she refused to go to her. She had to insist on it so her mother could die in peace. "And for her to die in peace, I had to release her", Stone recalls. Sometimes this is the only way. "And sometimes the person the other is meanest to is the person they're most attached to, because they feel safest taking it out on them. And it took quite a while to process that."
In July 2025, Stone had publicly announced on Instagram that her mother Dorothy had died at the age of 91. According to reports at the time, she had already passed away in March of the same year.
