Sharon Stone recalls 'glee and relief' after abusive grandfather's death

Sharon Stone explained why she felt 'glee and relief and emptiness' after the death of her maternal grandfather, Clarence Lawson, during an interview on the All There Is with Anderson Cooper podcast and in her memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice. She described Lawson as an abuser who targeted her mother and family, saying, '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 added, 'He was not a grandfather, he was a creature that we tried to avoid at all costs.' In the book she says her grandmother also aided the abuse, trapping Sharon and her sister Kelly in a room with their grandfather beginning when they were toddlers.

Stone recalled reaching into the casket at Lawson's funeral to make sure he was dead, writing, 'I poked him, and the bizarre satisfaction that he was at last dead hit me like a ton of ice.' She said Kelly, then 11, understood; Lawson died when Sharon was 14.

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