Overview
- Stone told Anderson Cooper on Friday that her maternal grandfather Clarence Lawson was an abuser who also harmed her mother and sought chances to be near the family.
- She repeated memoir details that she and her sister Kelly were abused beginning in early childhood and that their grandmother enabled the abuse during visits.
- Stone described feeling “glee and relief and emptiness” when Lawson died and recalled reaching into his casket to check that he was dead.
- The podcast appearance on June 26, 2026 restates and expands the emotional framing from her 2021 book The Beauty of Living Twice rather than reporting new third‑party corroboration.
- Reporters note the disclosures center on Stone’s first‑person account and the lasting intergenerational impact of the allegations while no family responses or legal actions are reported.