Elizabeth Hurley has given a heartbreaking interview after shedding two “great loves” of her life in as a few years.
Speaking to The Times UK, the British mannequin and actress mirrored on her relationships with late Aussie cricketing nice Shane Warne and movie financier and screenwriter Steve Bing, who was the father of her son Damian, 20.
In the interview, Hurley, 57, shared how their deaths impacted Damian.
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“Of the four great loves of my life two are dead – I always say to the other two, you’d better watch your backs,” she mentioned, referring to her different vital relationships with businessman Arun Nayar and actor Hugh Grant.
“But yes, it was very hard and it still is very hard. Losing Shane was terrible. It’s taken a long time to sink in,” she added. “I honestly kept thinking he’d call and it would turn out to be some big Aussie joke.”
Warne died from a suspected coronary heart assault in March whereas he was on vacation in Thailand. His demise, aged 52, got here 9 years after the pair ended their engagement after three years of courting.
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Meanwhile, Hurley misplaced Bing in 2020 when h reportedly took his personal life, aged 55. The mannequin mentioned “losing Stephen was something else completely” as she remembered their 18-month relationship from the early 2000s.
The exes have been embroiled in a paternity dispute after their breakup with Hurley issuing Bing with a court-ordered DNA check to show he was Damian’s dad. Although the check proved he was certainly the father, Bing and Damian remained estranged over the years.
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“We’d been estranged for so long but made up towards the end, and a bright and different future looked as if it was opening up, but of course it didn’t,” Hurley instructed The Times. “For Damian, his death was more of a mental challenge because he didn’t know him as a person. Arun was his father figure. Arun still calls him son and Damian calls him Dad.
“Shane was extra a enjoyable uncle determine. But sure, all these issues, mixed with COVID and lockdown – that was an enormous quantity for a youngster to course of.”
Damian himself has spoken out about the deaths of each his organic dad and his would-be stepdad.
“A 12 months in the past right this moment, my mom and I obtained some devastating information,” he wrote on Instagram in June 2021, one year after his dad’s passing. “I did not realise at the time fairly how a lot it could have an effect on me… We all like to indicate ‘good’ variations of our lives- for me, the thought of publicly discussing one thing as private as grief is terrifying… however generally it is necessary.”
“The final 12 months has been bloody hard- for everybody on the planet- and I believe acknowledging that’s important. It’s not weak to battle. In reality, to get by means of to the different aspect is immensely sturdy.”
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This past March, after Warne’s death, Damian shared a throwback photo of himself and the cricketer as he paid tribute.
“I’m nonetheless making an attempt to wrap my head round this,” he wrote. “SW was a father determine to me for many of my youth and was really one the finest males I’ve ever recognized. My coronary heart is damaged. Thinking of and sending like to all SW’s household.”
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