What Sylvester Stallone has said about Child abuse

Stallone says his parents told him he had cost them their destiny and treated him as a burden.

“they actually said it to my face, where you impeded on our life. You cost us our destiny”

On Purpose with Jay Shetty: SYLVESTER STALLONE: “I Wasn’t Stupid. I Was Just Misunderstood.” (Sep 28, 2026) · Listen from 9:49

Stallone argues that hurtful words leave permanent internal scars, especially on children.

“Words are literally verbal bullets that will penetrate you, pierce you, scar your interior forever”

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Stallone argues that parents shape their children like sculptors, for better or worse.

“the parents are the mold makers they're sculptors they don't realize it But they're sculptors. They're Rodin's. And they're sculpting their masterpiece or their disaster”

The Daily: Sylvester Stallone Hid His Struggles for Decades. Now He’s Coming Clean. (Sep 26, 2026) · Listen from 2:49

Stallone says his emotionally deprived childhood made him tough in an unhealthy way and delayed his capacity for real love until around age 70.

“I literally haven't figured out real, real, real, real true love until, you know, like 70”

The Daily: Sylvester Stallone Hid His Struggles for Decades. Now He’s Coming Clean. (Sep 26, 2026) · Listen from 6:39

Stallone contrasts his mother's claim to have no regrets with his own sense of living on regret.

“I live on regrets. I can make a castle out of regrets. I mean, when people say I have no regrets, I go, bullshit”

The Daily: Sylvester Stallone Hid His Struggles for Decades. Now He’s Coming Clean. (Sep 26, 2026) · Listen from 33:23