Elizabeth Hurley has wondered if she could have done more for her exes Steve Bing and Shane Warne before her death.
Businessman Steve committed suicide at the age of 55 in June 2020 and cricketer Shane died at the age of 52 following a heart attack in March 2022.
Actress Liz, 58, was deeply affected by the death of Steve, father of her son Damian, 22, and admitted she sometimes felt she could have been “kinder”.
She said during the interview with Andy Cohen on Sirius XM: ‘Well, it’s so horrible, isn’t it when you lose someone, whether by this means or by natural death? We had to deal with both.
‘You realize how you could have been more there for people. How can you not? No one is suggesting that you yourself could necessarily make a difference, but still perhaps you could have been kinder.
Elizabeth Hurley has wondered if she could have done more for her exes Steve Bing and Shane Warne before her death (pictured last week).
Businessman Steve, father of Liz’s son Damian, died by suicide at the age of 55 in June 2020 (Steve pictured in 2009).
Cricketer Shane died at the age of 52 following a heart attack in March 2022 (Shane pictured in 2006)
Film star Liz insists she put her feelings “on the back burner” so she could ensure her son Damian was cared for after Steve and Shane died.
She explained: ‘It’s really difficult. As a mom, you obviously care more about how your child will take it than how you will.
“So you have to put your own feelings on the back burner a little bit. But on the other hand, in both cases, of course, I was the one who had a relationship with them, not Damian. “So it’s hard because I guess you still have to keep everyone together, because you’re a mom.”
Elizabeth dated Steve in 2000 and 2001, and split from her ex-fiancé Shane in 2013, and Liz’s son Damian saw Shane as his stepfather.
Damian said of their deaths: ‘There are very different types of grief. When my biological father took his life, it was a confusing, horrible, devastating, horrible time.
‘Whereas when Shane, my stepfather, died naturally of a heart attack, it was just a horrible, different kind of pain, it was just a different kind of pain.
“It was just devastatingly sad and awful.”
It comes after Elizabeth said she has a “very different” relationship with her son than she does with her own parents.
Film star Liz insists she put her feelings ‘on the back burner’ so she could ensure her son Damian was cared for after Steve and Shane’s deaths (Liz and Damian pictured earlier this month).
The star explained that because she and Damian have always ‘shared the same interests’, that is why he was able to direct her in several graphic scenes for his new film Strictly Confidential even though he would never have been able to do the same with his own mother. and father.
Speaking on Loose Women, she explained: “I think Damian… is the single son of a single mother, so we’ve spent a huge amount of time together. “The relationship we’ve forged is very different to the one I had with my mum and my dad.
“So when people think it’s just extraordinary that my son filmed me in these particular scenes, it would have been absurd to film my mother or my father (like that)… it’s just mind-blowing!
‘But they weren’t in the same business as me, they didn’t share the same interests as me. Damián grew up with a camera in his hand, he has been filming me since he was nine or 10, in his little sketches, his little baby movies. His entire family has always been doing their thing. So it felt like a very natural and very organic progression of who we are.
“I’ve forced him… I’ve forced him to take my Elizabeth Hurley beach videos and photos for a long time, so him seeing me in a bikini or a sarong is completely different than me photographing my mother!”
The Bedazzled star can understand why it might seem “very strange” to others that her son has been directing her in intimate scenes for his new film, but she insisted the pair still have a “mom and son” relationship outside of work .
She said: “I understand why that would be very strange to other people, it just wasn’t to us.”
‘We have a very professional relationship but we are still mother and son. I tell him to go away. I scold him when he doesn’t come to the table. The food is there and he won’t come!’