Actor Sylvester Stallone mentioned his mom as soon as informed him, “The one cause you are right here is as a result of the hanger did not work.”
In late Aug. 2024, social media buzzed with the declare that actor Sylvester Stallone revealed his mom, Jackie Stallone, tried to abort him with a coat hanger.
These claims unfold throughout the social media platform X, the place customers posted in regards to the 78-year-old actor’s revelation. Stallone reportedly shared that his mom had informed him, “The solely cause you are right here is as a result of the hanger did not work.” (This refers to a brutal self-induced abortion methodology utilizing a coat hanger, which was the truth earlier than abortion grew to become authorized within the U.S. following the Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Courtroom resolution in 1973.)
A number of accounts on X that harbor anti-abortion sentiments circulated an edited clip of Stallone discussing this with two of his daughters, suggesting that he was an “abortion survivor.”
One other account on X stated, “Rocky actor Sylvester Stallone shocked his daughters when he reveals he was virtually aborted. ‘The one [reason] you are right here is as a result of the hanger did not work,'” receiving practically 18,000 views, as of this writing.
Rocky actor Sylvester Stallone shocked his daughters when he reveals he was virtually aborted.
“The one you are right here is as a result of the hanger did not work.” pic.twitter.com/IbULRix6qr
— Anna Lulis (@annamlulis) August 29, 2024
The quote was certainly accurately attributed to Stallone, who made the assertion throughout an episode of the Unwaxed Podcast, hosted by two of his three daughters, Sistine and Sophia Stallone.
In Episode 102, launched in November 2023, Stallone candidly mentioned his troubled childhood and sophisticated relationship together with his mom. He revealed Jackie Stallone had made a number of disturbing remarks about her makes an attempt to abort him, together with the coat hanger reference.
Within the full episode, Stallone elaborated on the cruel realities of his upbringing, together with rising up in a boarding home in Jackson Heights, Queens, till across the age of 5, and the sensation that he was unloved and undesirable by his mother and father. Though the dialog targeted on the difficulties he confronted throughout his early years, Stallone remained optimistic, insisting these experiences formed him into the success he’s at this time.
The complete podcast episode, which runs practically 1 hour, quarter-hour lengthy, is accessible on YouTube. The precise phase the place Stallone talks about his mom was edited and shared on X, transcribed as follows:
Sylvester Stallone: I grew up in a very unhealthy family.
Sistine Stallone: You had mentioned that your mother was nervous to have you ever. She did not need you, proper?
Sylvester Stallone: In no way. My mom would say, “The one cause you are right here is as a result of the hanger did not work.” Or, “Bouncing down these steps did not trigger you to get misplaced.” And she or he mentioned that, “You recognize, in truth, Sylvester, if there was actually one thing flawed together with your mind, I’d have positively opened up the window and put you on the window sill and allow you to freeze. As a result of I would be doing you a favor.” You recognize, your mind is just too younger to compete. I virtually thought she was joking.
Sistine Stallone: Yeah, in fact.
Sophia Stallone: Yeah. What sort of mom says that to their youngster? I imply…
Sylvester Stallone: I simply thought that was regular.
Sophia Stallone: Yeah, we keep in mind simply holidays alone. You needed to actually relearn find out how to have a wholesome relationship when mother [Jennifer Flavin] got here into the image, and having a household since you weren’t used to, you recognize …
Sylvester Stallone: Yeah, do you keep in mind?
Sistine Stallone: [You weren’t used to] normalcy.
Sylvester Stallone: I did not like Christmas or Thanksgiving.
Sistine and Sophia Stallone: [Or] board video games!
Stallone appeared on his daughters’ podcast to advertise his titular Netflix documentary function “Sly,” launched in September 2023. The movie explores his childhood and five-decade profession. The trailer will be considered right here:
Jackie Stallone led a colourful life, reportedly working as an astrologer, tv train teacher, trapeze artist and supervisor for the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, amongst different pursuits. She died in 2020 at age 98.
Within the early Nineties, she appeared on “The Howard Stern Show,” the place her ex-husband Frank Stallone (Sylvester Stallone’s father) stunned her by calling into the radio station throughout her interview. The dialog grew to become heated, with Jackie Stallone accusing Frank Stallone of eager to terminate her being pregnant along with her son, a declare she mentioned she pretended to associate with.
“He did not even need Sylvester, he tried to get me to have an abortion!” Jackie Stallone informed Stern, persevering with, “And I pretended I bought one, you had been very stunned to search out out I had a child.”
Whereas Jackie Stallone has apparently by no means publicly admitted eager to abort Sylvester Stallone, she did talk about the difficulties he confronted because of a facial harm he incurred at beginning.
Following the large success of “Rocky,” which Sylvester Stallone wrote and starred in, Jackie Stallone appeared on tv in 1977 and revealed her son’s facial paralysis and his failures as a pupil:
The declare that Sylvester Stallone mentioned his mom tried to abort him is accurately attributed. The actor made this revelation throughout a podcast dialogue together with his daughters, though Jackie Stallone had indicated it was her then-husband, Frank Stallone, who needed to abort the child.
Snopes has beforehand reported on Stallone, together with claims that he had abandoned his vintage vehicles and onetime home in Maryland, and the true declare that his first screen efforts was a starring role in a porn film.
