Posted on 08/29/2024 4:06:29 PM PDT by Morgana
In an episode of the Unwaxed Podcast, Sophia and Sistine Stallone interviewed their father, actor Sylvester Stallone, about the release of the Netflix documentary, “Sly.” During the interview, they asked their father about his tough upbringing, including that his mother, Jackie Stallone, “was nervous” to have him — and this interaction revealed something they didn’t expect.
“You had said that your mom was nervous to have you,” said Sistine. “She didn’t want you, right?”
“Not at all,” replied Stallone. “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.'” Based on these remarks, it sounds as if Stallone’s mother had tried to kill him in at least one, perhaps multiple, DIY abortion attempts.
At this revelation, his daughters were visibly shocked, with Sistine’s jaw dropping open.
He added, “And she said that, ‘You know, truthfully, Sylvester … you know, if there was really something wrong with your brain, I would have definitely opened up the window and put you on the windowsill and let you freeze because I’d be doing you a favor.'”
Sophia replied, “What type of mother says that to their child?”
Stallone, however, with compassion, went on to offer an explanation for his mother’s abortion attempt as well as the emotional abuse and neglect she inflicted on Stallone during his childhood.
“My mother, she was was a troubled person. She was put into an orphanage, you know, and a very cruel orphanage because her father had remarried and the new stepmother hated her,” he explained. “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.”
He said this affected his own relationships, as he didn’t like to be touched either — because “affection…was so alien” to him that it made him uncomfortable.
Though seemingly unrelated to the abortion attempts, Stallone reportedly had a traumatic birth as well. The doctor used a pair of forceps to deliver him, which severed a nerve on his face and paralyzed the left side of his lip, chin, and part of his tongue, causing his face to droop.
“Even though she was nine months pregnant, she kept riding around on the bus,” he said of his mother and his birth. “And she went into labor. Somebody was smart enough to get her off the bus, they carried her into a charity ward. And that’s where I was brought into the world via this accident, which kind of paralyzed all the nerves on the side of my mouth. So I was born with this snarl.”
Stallone’s story shows that a mother’s opinion on whether or not she ‘wants’ her child has nothing to do with the child’s humanity, right to life, or value. Stallone’s daughters — who would not exist if Stallone’s mother had successfully killed him — clearly want him as their father.
Stallone is not alone. He survived an attempted self-abortion prior to the legalization of abortion in the United States, and babies are still surviving abortions today. Many are left to die, some are killed, and some are saved and adopted, and speak out against abortion.
Only a handful of states require instances of abortion survivors to be documented, but Live Action News found 220 cases of abortion survivors reported from 1999-2023 in just eight states. Because of a failure to require states to report abortion statistics or survivors, and abortionists’ attempts to hide their ‘failed abortions,’ that number is almost certainly substantially higher.
Wrong thread?
Wrong thread?
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Holy mixed messages, batman. So it was a hanger? Too bad there were’nt “safe and legal abortions” available to her like they are to you, eh Sly?
Stallone is a pro-life Republican.
Not being much of a fan I wouldn’t know. The “hangar” comment is so loaded it’s loaded.
Hangar did not work because Sly ate it.
“He was meant to be here... Talented man.”
And how many tens of millions other wonderful, talented didn’t survive their mother’s abortions?
There was parable or perhaps a cartoon going around a number of years ago in which people were asking God questions like, “Why haven’t you sent us anyone who could cure cancer?” And God answers, “I did. They were aborted.”
When the Dobbs decision came down, some nut on Daily Kos posted her “do it yourself guidelines” on how to self abort.(surgically)
She was so matter of fact about it, as well as sporting a big chip on her shoulder & a lot of hateful venom.
Ahhhhh, to be a Stallone. Loving Mother tells Sylvester he’s lucky.
He can relate the story.
Millions didn’t even have the chance to be told, “you were not wanted, we murdered you.”
The “coat hanger” technique is mostly made up. That is, it was a rumor devised to get support for “legal” abortion.
I don’t know why anyone would necessarily trust Stallone on his claim, make right when they’re trying again to give “legal” abortion new legs.
Aside from him ripping off a few movies he seems like a good guy.
He said she was repeatedly molested in the orphanage. I don’t know how old she was when she had Sylvester, but I suspect that’s how she got pregnant.
I’m glad that Sylvester is able to understand what she was dealing with. That would make it easier to not take the death wishes personally.
Sistine Chappelle, name still works!
“There was parable or perhaps a cartoon going around a number of years ago in which people were asking God questions like, “Why haven’t you sent us anyone who could cure cancer?” And God answers, “I did. They were aborted.
I remember that! I saw a cartoon of it. Make you wonder, really.
wow. My mother’s father was insanely brutal with his kids.
She has been a good mother. I have no complaints. She is 91 and doing pretty well...some memory issues.
But she was never a big hugger or one for kisses hello and goodbye.
Maybe the abuse was the reason. I never thought about it until now.
She didn’t pass down the physical abuse and she deserves credit for that.
I don’t know if she was SAd and dont want to know.
Because part of me says yes.
My mother tried to abort me by getting drunk and taking a hot bath. When that didn’t work she stuck her head in the oven. Fortunately, her desire for a cigarette overwhelmed her desire to die.
I can honestly say I was treated like a bastard, not just by her, but by her other children by other men. The experience gave me a twisted world view until my late 20s when I joined the Catholic Church.
I’ve since fallen away from the Church because of Francis’ stance on certain issues, and his antipathy towards the TLM. I don’t see any hope things will change.
But what about your mother’s mother.
I am guessing that she was a loving caring mother
I believe in that orphanage there was no caring or affection shown to the children to moderate the abuse.
How did you know that?
she was a wonderful lady....IF you discount that fact that she stayed with an abuser with her 8 kids.
BUT it was the 1930s and it wasn’t so easy to leave a cruel man.
He was a gangster but to be honest, I’ve known (i’m NOT one) a lot of gangsters where I live and a lot love their wife and kids to no end....didn’t say they were good men...they’re not.
But she got a double whammy :(
You’re a smart person.
That’s where she got her loving side from.
I have read a lot about early childhood development over the years.
A lot has been written about the damage done to children from the lack of kind touch and affection.
A little can go a long way to socializing a child.
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