Elizabeth Hurley’s “disappointment” over Shane Warne’s demise has “stayed with” her.

The 58-year-old actress admitted she and her son Damian, 22, have “a bond” due to the losses they’ve skilled, together with the suicide of the filmmaker’s father Steve Bing and the passing of the previous cricketer – who the ‘Austin Powers’ star was engaged to from 2011 to 2013 – from a coronary heart assault in 2022.

Elizabeth – who stars in her son’s directorial debut ‘Strictly Confidential’ – informed Telegraph journal: “We have now suffered loss. And apparently, this film [‘Strictly Confidential’] kind of pulls on these emotions of loss rather a lot – and in numerous Damian’s work I do see that.

“Sure, it’s a bond… It was appalling shedding Shane; it was a horrible factor. And it’s a disappointment, you recognize, that stays with you a very long time.

“I do know as we grow old we’re going to expertise increasingly loss, however Damian as a younger man has skilled most likely greater than most and I believe it does have an effect on you. I believe it impacts his writing and it does have an effect on him as an artist.”

The ‘Royals’ actress was modified “immensely” by motherhood and located it “fairly liberating” to must put another person’s wants earlier than her personal.

Requested if motherhood modified her, she defined: “Immensely, as a result of it meant that someone else was at all times put first. So usually I believe in life you’re continuously placing different folks first, your dad and mom or your siblings or your pals, or whoever wants you.

“However when there’s a baby, there’s completely little doubt about it that they’re going to be first and in some ways in which’s fairly liberating, as a result of placing another person forward of you takes a little bit of stress off your self as properly.

“Changing into a guardian adjustments you in so some ways. I imply, you’re at all times scared in your children on some stage. As they’re rising up these fears change in some methods. However you are worried for his or her security continually, you are worried for his or her happiness, you are worried for his or her psychological well being, you are worried about every part… However I’m fairly a worrier, anyway, in order that does faucet in just a little bit.”

Elizabeth famously dated Hugh Grant – who has two youngsters with Tinglan Hong and three with Anna Eberstein – and the pair are nonetheless shut now, even when they do not see one another fairly often.

She stated: “We’re excellent buddies. He’s married. He’s obtained 5 youngsters. His profession is superb.

“I at all times know what he’s doing and he is aware of what I’m doing. We’ll be finest buddies for ever, however he’s obtained younger children, so he’s busy.”

The Estee Lauder spokesmodel confirmed she has a brand new man in her life, however would not be drawn on the small print.

She merely stated: “I’m courting in the mean time. However that’s one thing that I’m nonetheless holding personal.”