Stéphanie Grimaldi

Stéphanie, la hija menor de Grace Kelly habla sobre el talento de su madre, de sus deseos de ser actriz, de su carrera de cantante y de su compromiso reciente (en aquella época, 1990). Stéphanie estaba con Grace en el momento del accidente y debe haber sido un shock terrible

"Not only did I go through the horrible trauma of losing my mother at a very young age, but I was beside her at the moment of the accident. Nobody can imagine how much I've suffered, and still suffer."

On 13 September 1982, while returning home from their farm in Rocagel, France, Stéphanie and her mother had a car accident. Grace died the next day, on September 14, while Stéphanie sustained a hairline fracture of a neck vertebra. Although the official version was that Grace suffered a stroke while driving, rumors began that Stéphanie, who had to miss her mother's funeral due to her recovery, was the one actually driving. Stéphanie herself refused to speak publicly about her mother's death until 1989, when she gave an interview to the author Jeffrey Robinson, insisting that the story was untrue. She said, "There was a lot of pressure on me because everyone was saying that I had been driving the car, that it was all my fault, that I'd killed my mother... It's not easy when you're 17 to live with that." She did not discuss the subject again until a 2002 interview with the French magazine Paris Match in which she repeated her earlier denial, and discussed the trauma of being beside her mother at the time of the accident.

She said, "Not only did I go through the horrible trauma of losing my mother at a very young age, but I was beside her at the moment of the accident. Nobody can imagine how much I've suffered, and still suffer."

Stephanie of Monaco Interview (1990)

Michael Aspel interviews Princess Stephanie on her music and future career. Also present are Eric Idle and Bob Geldof. 12th May 1990.

She´s engaged – she wants to be an actress like her mother – her mother was an excellent actress

—Congratulations on the engagement.

—thank you.

—We all read about that. Have you named the day?

—Not yet. I think everybody is coming very fast. We´re just barely engaged. I think marriage is an important thing in life, it should take time to choose a day and there is no rush.

—In asking your father´s permission, was it done formally?

—It was done in a very normal way. The fiancée comes to see the father of the future bride, and meet with him and talk to him. It wasn´t done behind his back and surprised him. He´s very happy for us two… (2, 14)

—Your mother was an actress, an Oscar winner actress. Did you feel tempted to follow her steps?

—Yes. I was in Los Angeles taking acting classes there. I´m still working on my acting. I would love to be an actress one day. It´s been hard for me because everybody´s been waiting for me. They´re going to compare me to my mother. So I think I have to wait until I find really the right movie for me. Not trying to remake one of my mother´s movies or trying the same kind of characters she did. To show people that I have a personality of my own and I’m not trying to be as my mother as an actress…

—Have you seen all of her films and what do you think of her qualities?

—I think she´s just spontaneous. You never really know that she´s acting. She was a brilliant actress. It always felt so natural. It just flows. Of course she´s so beautiful. She could play a lot of different parts. She wasn´t stuck in one, the dumb blonde part. Shad had something to say through her acting and that´s what I´d like to do. I won´t accept to do a movie until I´m ready because it´s not fair to myself and it´s not fair to my mother´s memory… (11, 58)

Paris Match

The magazine was started as a sports news magazine with the name Match in 1938 by the industrialist Jean Prouvost and closed in June 1940. It was relaunched in 1949 with a new name, Paris Match.

On occasion, Paris Match has sold more than one million copies worldwide when covering major events such as the first flight by a French astronaut aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle in June 1985. Benoît Clair, a senior writer for Paris Match, was the first journalist allowed to join the shuttle crew members from training until the departure for the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. A series of reports on the training was published in Paris Match on 22 April 1985, 17 June 1985 and 20 January 1986.

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