Sharon Stone recalls feeling ‘glee and relief’ after her abusive grandfather died

Sharon Stone is further explaining why she felt “glee and relief and emptiness” after her maternal grandfather Clarence Lawson’s death. The “Basic Instinct” actress detailed the reason behind those feelings…

Sharon Stone is further explaining why she felt “glee and relief and emptiness” after her maternal grandfather Clarence Lawson’s death.

The “Basic Instinct” actress detailed the reason behind those feelings — which she chronicled in her memoir,“The Beauty of Living Twice” — during her Friday appearance on the “All There Is with Anderson Cooper” podcast.

“He was an abuser who abused my mom and did everything he could possibly do to get near us to be abusive of us,” Stone, 68, told Anderson Cooper, 59.

Sharon Stone speaking animatedly with open hands while wearing a white robe with purple and clear sequined flowers.
Sharon Stone (pictured above at a screening of “Casino” as part of Cinema For Peace event on Feb. 19, 2024) explained why she felt “glee and relief and emptiness” at her abusive grandfather’s funeral. Corbis via Getty Images
Sharon Stone speaks onstage, holding a microphone while seated, wearing a white pantsuit and loafers.
“He was an abuser who abused my mom and did everything he could possibly do to get near us to be abusive of us,” Stone (seen above speaking onstage during a screening of “The Misfits” in May) said. Getty Images for TCM

Stone continued: “And he was not a grandfather, he was a creature that we tried to avoid at all costs.”

In her book, Stone revealed that she and her younger sister, Kelly, were abused by their grandfather — aided by their grandmother, whom Lawson also abused. She would trap the girls in a room with her husband when they visited, starting when they were just toddlers.

At Lawson’s funeral, Stone recalled reaching into the casket to make sure he was dead.

Actresses Sharon Stone and Kelly Stone at Lupus LA's 2017 Orange Ball.
In her memoir, “The Beauty of Living Twice,” Stone revealed her maternal grandfather, Clarence Lawrence, abused her and her younger sister, Kelly (pictured left of Sharon athe the Lupus LA 2017 Orange Ball) as children. WireImage
Sharon Stone and Kelly Stone at Lupus LA's Orange Ball: Rocket to a Cure.
Lawrence died when Sharon was 14 years old. Kelly, on the other hand, was just 11 at the time. Tiffany Rose

“I poked him, and the bizarre satisfaction that he was at last dead hit me like a ton of ice,” she writes. “I looked at [Kelly] and she understood; she was 11, and it was over.”

“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,” she continues.

In her Friday interview with Cooper, Stone looked back on the funeral, remembering how it felt colder than most memorial services.

Black and white portrait of Sharon Stone looking directly at the viewer, her hands folded under her chin.
“I poked him, and the bizarre satisfaction that he was at last dead hit me like a ton of ice,” she writes in her memoir (pictured here). “I looked at [Kelly] and she understood.”
Sharon Stone speaks onstage during Variety Power of Women event.
“It will be a picture in my mind forever of that weird sense of emptiness, good emptiness,” Stone said of the funeral in her Friday interview. Variety via Getty Images

“People usually kind of meander in, sit down, talk. There’s usually a gentle, caring, and a hand-holding, and a thoughtfulness at a funeral” Stone said, before clarifying that there was “none of that” at Lawson’s ceremony.

But, the feeling of “glee and relief and emptiness” was all she felt.

“It will be a picture in my mind forever of that weird sense of emptiness, good emptiness,” she told Cooper.

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