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.
