Elizabeth Hurley has questioned whether she could have done more for her exes Steve Bing and Shane Warne before their deaths.
Businessman Steve died by 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 hit hard by the death of Steve, who was the father of her son Damian, 22, admitting she felt at times she could have been ‘kinder’.
She said during interview with Andy Cohen on Sirius XM: ‘Well, it’s just so awful, isn’t it when you lose someone whether it’s by this means or a natural death, we had both to deal with.
‘You do realise how you could have been more there for people. How can you not? No one suggests you could necessarily make a difference yourself, but you still maybe could have been kinder.’
Elizabeth Hurley has questioned whether she could have done more for her exes Steve Bing and Shane Warne before their deaths (pictured last week)
Businessman Steve, who is the 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 make sure her son Damian was cared for following the deaths of Steve and Shane.
She explained: ‘It is really hard. As a mommy, obviously you care more about how your child will take it than how you do.
‘So you do have to put your own feelings on a back burner a little bit. But on the other hand, in both those cases, of course, I was the one in a relationship with them, not Damian. So it’s just hard because I guess you have to still keep everyone together, because you are mummy.’
Elizabeth dated Steve in 2000 and 2001, and split from former fiancé Shane in 2013, with Liz’a son Damian seeing Shane as his step-father.
Damian said of their deaths: ‘There is such different kinds of grief. When my biological father took his own life, it was a confusing, horrific, devastating, horrible time.
‘Whereas when Shane, my stepfather died naturally of a heart attack, it was just a horrific type, different, it was just a different type of grief.
‘It was just devastatingly sad and appalling.’
It comes after Elizabeth said she has a ‘very different’ relationship with her son than she did with her own parents.
Film star Liz insists she put her feelings ‘on the back burner’ so she could make sure her son Damian was cared for following the deaths of Steve and Shane (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 her new movie 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 forged is very different to the one I had with my mum and dad.
‘So when people think that it is 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 business as me, they didn’t share the same interests as me. Damian grew up with a camera in his hand, he’s been filming me since he was nine or 10 years old, in his little sketches, his little baby movies. All his family have always been in his thing. So it felt very nature progression and it felt very organic to who we are.
‘I’ve made him – forced him to take my Elizabeth Hurley beach videos and photographs for a long time, so for him to see me in a bikini or a sarong is completely different to me photographing my mother!”
The Bedazzled star can understand why it might appear ‘very odd’ to others that her son has been directing her in intimate scenes for her new movie, but insisted that the pair of them still have a ‘mummy and son ‘ relationship outside of work.
She said: ‘I get why that would be very odd to other people, it just wasn’t odd to us.
‘We have a very professional relationship but we are still mummy and son. I tell him off. I tell him off when he won’t come to the table. The food’s there and he won’t come!’