Elizabeth Hurley wonders if she could have done more for her exes Steve Bing and Shane Warne before their deaths.
Businessman Steve died by suicide in June 2020 at the age of 55 and cricketer Shane died at the age of 52 after suffering a heart attack in March 2022.
Actress Liz, 58, was hit hard by the death of Steve, the father of her son Damian, 22, and admitted she sometimes felt she could have been ‘kinder’.
She said this during an interview with Andy Cohen Sirius XM: “Well, it’s just so devastating isn’t it when you lose someone, whether it’s this way or through natural death, which we both had to deal with.
‘You realize that you could have been there more for people. How can you not? No one is suggesting that you could necessarily make a difference yourself, 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 their deaths (pictured last week)
Businessman Steve, father of Liz’s son Damian, died by suicide in June 2020 aged 55 (Steve pictured in 2009)
Cricketer Shane died aged 52 after suffering 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’s deaths.
She explained: ‘It’s really hard. As a mother, you naturally care more about how your child will perceive it than how you do.
‘So you have to put your own feelings on the back burner a bit. But on the other hand, in both cases I was of course the one who had a relationship with them, and not Damian. So it’s just hard because I think you still have to keep everyone together because you’re a mom.”
Elizabeth dated Steve in 2000 and 2001, and split from former fiancée Shane in 2013, with Liz’a son Damian seeing Shane as his stepfather.
Damian said of their deaths: ‘There are so many different types of grief. When my biological father committed suicide, it was a confusing, horrific, devastating, terrible time.
“Whereas when Shane, my stepfather, died naturally of a heart attack, it was just a horrible kind of grief, different, it was just a different kind of grief.
“It was just terribly sad and horrible.”
It comes after Elizabeth said she has a “very different” relationship with her son to her own parents.
Movie 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,” he was therefore able to direct her in several graphic scenes for her new film Strictly Confidential, even though she could never have done the same with her own mother and father.
Speaking on Loose Women, she explained: ‘I think Damian…he’s a single child of a single mother, so we’ve spent a huge amount of time together. The relationship we have built is very different from the one I had with my father and mother.
“So if people think it’s just extraordinary that my son would film me in these particular scenes, it would have been absurd to film my mother or father. [like that]…it’s just mind-boggling!
‘But they weren’t in the same field as me, they didn’t share the same interests as me. Damian grew up with a camera in his hand, he has been filming me since he was nine or ten years old, in his little sketches, his little baby videos. His whole family has always been into his thing. So it felt like a natural progression and it felt very organic to who we are.
“I made him – forced him to take my Elizabeth Hurley beach videos and photos for a long time, so when he sees me in a bikini or a sarong, it’s very different from when I photograph my mother!”
The Bedazzled star can understand why it may seem “very strange” to others that her son directed her in intimate scenes for her new film, but emphasized that the two still have a “mom and son” relationship outside of work.
She said: ‘I understand why that would be very strange to other people, but to us it just wasn’t strange.
‘We have a very professional relationship, but we are still mother and son. I tell him off. I tell him he doesn’t want to come to the table. The food is here and he’s not coming!’