United Kingdom, June 26 -- Sharon Stone felt "glee and relief" when her abusive grandfather died.

The 68-year-old actress opened up on the All There Is with Anderson Cooper podcast, as she reflected on how she and sister Kelly felt when their maternal grandfather - who sexually abused them as children - passed away in 2001.

She previously wrote about her mixed emotions in her book The Beauty of Living Twice, with host Anderson reading out: "It's a very weird thing when you're a kid and the first experience you have of death is glee and relief and emptiness."

Sharon appeared to be struggling to control her emotions as she told Anderson: "He was an abuser who abused my mom and did everything he could possibly do to get near us to be abus...