The actress explained that she felt her mother Dorothy, who died last year, often behaved &34;as if she didn't like me at all.&34; Sharon Stone tears up as she remembers her mom's last moments: 'I have to let go' The actress explained that she felt her mother Dorothy, who died last year, often behaved &34;as if she didn't like me at all.&34; By Emlyn Travis :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/EmlynTravisauthorphotocba6765b433b4f93b9398d18053153b1.jpg) Emlyn Travis Emlyn Travis is a news writer at . She has been working at EW since 2022.

The actress explained that she felt her mother Dorothy, who died last year, often behaved "as if she didn't like me at all."

Sharon Stone tears up as she remembers her mom's last moments: 'I have to let go'

The actress explained that she felt her mother Dorothy, who died last year, often behaved "as if she didn't like me at all."

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Sharon Stone and Dorothy Stone attend unveiling of her new Damiani 'Maji' Jewelry Collection at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on Nov. 30, 2010, in Beverly Hills. Credit:

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- Sharon Stone wiped away tears as she remembered her late mom Dorothy's final moments.

- The actress opened up about how her mom's complicated childhood impacted their own relationship.

- "In order for her to die in peace, I had to release her," she said.

Sharon Stone is looking back at her late mom Dorothy's final moments.

The 68-year-old actress dabbed away tears as she reflected on her complicated relationship with her mother, who died at 91 last year, and how Dorothy's traumatic upbringing affected their own bond on a recent episode of the *All There Is With Anderson Cooper* podcast.

"My mom behaved often as if she didn't like me at all," Stone recalled. "And it took me quite a bit of therapy and trauma therapy to understand that it was a reflection of her own self-loathing."

Sharon Stone (right) opened up to Anderson Cooper about her complicated relationship with her late mom.

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The* Basic Instinct *star explained that her mom had a "very awful childhood" and "was removed from her home when she was 9 because she was so violently abused." She was then given to another family and essentially served as their housekeeper and caretaker from that point onward.

"This was incredible child abuse on top of the child abuse she'd already suffered,” Stone pointed out. "And she was pregnant at 16 and married to my dad… They loved each other very much and had a really passionate, loving marriage for 60 years. However, nobody should be pregnant and married at 16 and working as a child servant at 9."

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As a result, Stone believed that her mother was "quite resentful" of the fact when she was placed in accelerated learning classes during her early education and began attending college at age 15.

"I was having a life that was not only a normal kid life that she never even got a glimpse of, but I was having an accelerated education, special attention," she said. "I was the treasurer of Junior Achievement, which sounds maybe silly, but to her, that was something she would make fun of me when I came home from because she was angry and jealous and upset."

While the Emmy winner now knows what contributed to her mother's behavior, she admitted that it wasn't easy to understand as a child. In fact, she claimed that she'd turned out to be "super uptight and square" because "I didn't want to be like my mom."

She went on to shed light on how their dynamic evolved in the lead-up to her mom's death.

"She was at my house and I was taking care of her, but she didn't want it to be acknowledged between us that it was me. So I had to pretend that I was staff," Stone remembered. "So I'd come in with a towel over my arm and say, 'Good afternoon, Mrs. Stone.'"

When the pair were alone, however, the actress said her mom would unload "all the trauma of her childhood that she hadn't been able to say" to anyone else.

"She was terrified to die because she was afraid her parents would be there," she said. "So I had to lie to her and tell her that her father was in jail and her mother was in a mental hospital. And they weren't going to be there."

Stone explained that Dorothy continued to fight death in her final hours.

"My mom was holding on and holding on. And I finally realized, 'I have to let go. I need to release my mother,'" she said. "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."

Stone became visibly emotional as she reflected on how painful it was to come to that decision, especially because she wanted to hear from her.

"I wanted her to say, 'I'm proud of you. I love you. I'm sorry. You're important to me,'" she said, her voice breaking as she reached for a tissue to dab her eyes. "And I wasn't going to get them."

She continued, "And I had to make peace with the fact that my mom was not going to do that. My mom was going to tell me every awful thing."

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When the nurses alerted her that her mom was in the process of dying, Stone didn't rush to her bedside.

"It was so hard because I wanted her to die in peace," she said. "And in order for her to die in peace, I had to release her. And sometimes that's what you have to do. Sometimes you have to step back. And sometimes the person that the person is meanest to, you find out is the person they're most attached to. Because they feel safest to take it out on you. And it took me quite a while to process that."

Stone announced her mother's death in a July Instagram post, writing, "My hilarious, complex mother died."

She previously opened up about her mom's "tough" parenting style at a 2021 Zurich Film Festival event, during which she recalled asking her mom, "'Why [do] you never let me lean on you?' She said: 'Because I taught you to stand on your two goddamn feet.'"

Listen to Stone discuss her mom's final moments in the video above.

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