Sylvester Stallone has confirmed that he did not attend his mother, Jackie Stallone's, funeral.
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During an interview with Page Six, the "Rocky" star recalled being on a golf course when he was informed that his mother had passed.
"I was playing golf and someone called, 'Your mother's dead,'" he recalled, before being asked if he went to the funeral.
"No... Now you're getting the scoop," he replied.
Stallone is currently promoting his memoir The Steps, in which the 80-year-old reflects on the highs and lows of his life, including his troublesome childhood.
According to Stallone, Jackie would tell him, "The only reason you're here is because the hanger didn't work."
Reflecting on his tattered relationship with his mother, Stallone said, "Some people just shouldn't have children. And I think she knew that. She was very, very immature and she wanted to be a star... She tried to be this palmist, this astrologist, this rumpologist (someone who claims to read people's fortunes from their buttocks), she was a trapeze artist, she played piano. But she never reached out for her grandchildren or her children."
Jackie, who had three children and seven grandchildren, eventually became estranged from her Hollywood star son.
"It got to the point where she just didn't want to talk to me. So she died in isolation," he added.
Sylvester Stallone Used Loveless Childhood as Motivation
The Expendables star believes that his rocky relationship with his parents helped spur his success.
"It's the ones that have all the issues that usually end up being the most creative," Stallone said.
In 1976, Stallone penned and starred in "Rocky," which became the highest-grossing film of the year. The blockbuster movie was also nominated for 10 awards at the 1977 Oscars.
Although the movie helped fuel his Hollywood career, Stallone revealed that his recurring role as Rocky also led to steroid abuse.
During an hour-long interview with New York Times, Stallone revealed that he developed an eating disorder amid steroid abuse in the 1980s.
"It was my armor," Stallone told the New York Times. "I looked at Rocky like a very smooth, normal-looking guy. Then we said, if we move on, I think the character would start to become a bit more vain. And for Rambo, you're playing a warrior; you'll be a little bit more animalistic. So I started to think, design your body like a jaguar, a cat."
"And then it became an obsession, really bad," the actor continued.
Stallone details his steroid abuse in-depth in The Steps, which released Tuesday.
