{"id":240799,"date":"2025-12-19T09:55:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/240799\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:55:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:55:26","slug":"sylvester-stallone-breaks-down-over-painful-oscar-night-memory-despite-monumental-rocky-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/240799\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvester Stallone breaks down over painful Oscar night memory despite monumental &#8216;Rocky&#8217; success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/sylvester-stallone\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sylvester Stallone;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sylvester Stallone<\/a> is reflecting on his relationship with his parents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 79-year-old star spoke about the success of &#8220;Rocky,&#8221; which won three Academy Awards \u2013 including best picture \u2013 during a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/sylvester-stallone-rocky-oscar-moment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:CBS News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">CBS News.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Looking back on his triumphant night in 1977, Stallone admitted that initially winning felt like &#8220;a volcanic moment, and then it was very sad.&#8221; He went on to share that his parents chose not to attend the ceremony, despite the fact that the film, which Stallone wrote and starred in, had been nominated for 10 awards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;You want people that you love that denied you \u2013 now you&#8217;re here, you&#8217;re at the Oscars, and they don&#8217;t want to go,&#8221; he said, as he started getting emotional. &#8220;You realize that, at that moment, that you&#8217;re never ever going to come to terms with this. And it&#8217;s like, what more do you need? Really, what f&#8212;ing more do you need to do to say, &#8216;I&#8217;m here. I did this.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Sylvester Stallone accepting the award for best picture in 1977.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/47106b7ffa731fb388d88164696926ba.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Stallone recalled what it felt like to win the Academy Award in 1977 for &#8220;Rocky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/kelsey-grammer-calls-trump-one-greatest-presidents-weve-ever-had-kennedy-center-honors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kelsey Grammer Calls Trump &#039;One Of The Greatest Presidents We&#039;ve Ever Had&#039; At Kennedy Center Honors;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>Kelsey Grammer Calls Trump &#8216;One Of The Greatest Presidents We&#8217;ve Ever Had&#8217; At Kennedy Center Honors<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Earlier in the interview, the actor shared that when his parents got divorced when he was 11 years old, he went to live with his father, who was described in the interview as &#8220;emotionally and physically abusive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS\/mvaj7wvj\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Read On The Fox News App;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>Read On The Fox News App<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stallone explained that living with his dad &#8220;was hard to navigate,&#8221; especially for a &#8220;rebellious&#8221; kid like himself. He said he came to expect beatings, adding: &#8220;My father, when he used to whistle, I knew it was coming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/lifestyle\/parenting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Parents should really wise up;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Parents should really wise up<\/a>. Kids are the same as soft clay. They really are. You mold them, and you dent them, and you hurt them, or you drop them off the table, and they&#8217;re not the same shape anymore,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I still walk around with it. And I wish I couldn&#8217;t. And I pray, and I do everything, but it&#8217;s always there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He admitted there is &#8220;always some residual thing there&#8221; stemming from the hurt he felt from his parents, even though he sees himself as &#8220;a tough guy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Sylvester Stallone looks off in the distance during a panel\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/f1065f75b3c137dd6c283eba08807d04.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Stallone said parents should &#8220;wise up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters?cmpid=fnfirstnl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click Here To Sign Up For The Entertainment Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>Click Here To Sign Up For The Entertainment Newsletter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Not only is he a tough guy in real life, he has also played his fair share of tough guys on screen. He is currently filming the fourth season of his hit Paramount + action series, &#8220;Tulsa King.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>WATCH: SYLVESTER STALLONE TALKS SEASON 3 OF \u2018TULSA KING\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/sylvester-stallone-admits-nervous-working-hollywood-legend\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sylvester Stallone Admits He Was Nervous Working With This Hollywood Legend For First Time;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>Sylvester Stallone Admits He Was Nervous Working With This Hollywood Legend For First Time<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s as close as I&#8217;m ever going to come to showing who I am, my real personality. That&#8217;s how I would react. It was an experiment,&#8221; he told Fox News Digital in September. &#8220;This is pretty much me as a gangster.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The &#8220;Rambo&#8221; star received a Kennedy Center honor in early December, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/president-trump-shakes-up-hollywood-revamped-kennedy-center-awards-list\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:President Trump announcing Stallone;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">President Trump announcing Stallone<\/a> as one of this year&#8217;s recipients in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During an interview with Fox News Digital in September, Stallone said hearing he would receive the honor was &#8220;a shock and revelation,&#8221; adding it was never he expected, &#8220;and now I don&#8217;t know what to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Like What You\u2019re Reading? Click Here For More Entertainment News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>Like What You\u2019re Reading? Click Here For More Entertainment News<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>WATCH: SYLVESTER STALLONE SAYS KENNEDY CENTER HONOR IS \u2018SOMETHING I STILL CAN\u2019T FATHOM&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;When you get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/sylvester-stallone-says-kennedy-center-honor-something-i-still-cant-fathom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:this Kennedy Center honor;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">this Kennedy Center honor<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/kennedy-center\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">,<\/a> it&#8217;s just something I still, at this age, can&#8217;t fathom that you actually get a prize for what you do that you would do for free. You know what I mean? I&#8217;ve been so lucky. I&#8217;ve been blessed, everything. And on top of that, you&#8217;re gonna give me a chocolate sundae? Come on. Jesus,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Donald Trump awarding Sylvester Stallone with the Kennedy Center honor in December 2025.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/50958bf3188aef3b5e80f3d83e2eda40.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Stallone received a Kennedy Center honor in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The other honorees included country legend George Strait, rock band KISS, English actor Michael Crawford and iconic singer Gloria Gaynor, known for her hits, including &#8220;I Will Survive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click Here To Download The Fox News App\u00a0;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>Click Here To Download The Fox News App\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Original article source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/sylvester-stallone-breaks-down-over-painful-oscar-night-memory-despite-monumental-rocky-success\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sylvester Stallone breaks down over painful Oscar night memory despite monumental &#039;Rocky&#039; success;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sylvester Stallone breaks down over painful Oscar night memory despite monumental &#8216;Rocky&#8217; success<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sylvester Stallone is reflecting on his relationship with his parents. 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