Sylvester Stallone Is Alive Because Mother’s Abortion Attempts Failed
By Movieguide® Contributor
Actor Sylvester Stallone recently revealed that he was born despite his mother’s attempts to abort him.
“You had said that your mom was nervous to have you,” his daughter Sistine said while interviewing him for the “Unwaxed” podcast. “She didn’t want you, right?”
Stallone replied, “Not at all. My mother would say, ‘The only reason you’re here is because the hanger didn’t work’ or ‘bouncing down those steps didn’t cause you to get lost.’”
While his daughters, Sistine and Sophia, reacted with shock, Stallone showed compassion for his mother, pointing to her troubled childhood.
“My mother, she was a troubled person,” the actor explained. “She was put into an orphanage, you know, and a very cruel orphanage because her father had remarried and the new stepmother hated her. And I think my mother was also kind of rebellious. So she was put into an orphanage that — it’s unlike the ones they have today. It was, you know, you’re tied to the bed, you’re whipped, and you’re…she was terribly molested. And I think her ability to ever show love was short-circuited. She literally couldn’t stand to be touched or touch at all. I mean, not even a hug.”
Stallone has previously spoken about his parents, who had a tumultuous relationship with each other as well as their sons.
“I’d be up in bed and you’d just hear them screaming and yelling,” Stallone’s brother Frank said in the recent Netflix documentary SLY.
Stallone added that the brothers were “living in a boarding house basically 12 months a year, never went home, because [their parents] just didn’t have time, they were both working.”
Speaking about his father in the documentary, Stallone said he was “very physical,” adding, “I was no stranger to serious pain.”
However, the actor has chosen to focus on the good things in his life — “I’m in the hope business, and I just hate sad endings. Shoot me.”
Stallone has spoken about how his faith has guided him through hard times in his life.
“Without the church, it’s like having a boat without the rudder,” he said in an interview with the Dove Foundation. “You think you can do it on your own and this may sound pedestrian or trite but I’ll equate it to this: all my life I’ve been involved with exercise but no matter how much — and I know a great deal about the body — you need help. You need a trainer. You need to go to a gym and you need to have the expertise and the guidance of someone else. You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and what the church is. The church is the gym of the soul.”
