Christine Baranski

No.

No, they did not.

I have no memory of my mother ever discussing my father's death with me, like, how do you feel?

In fact, this is rather extraordinary.

I was already in my 30s, sitting at the kitchen table with a girlfriend and my mother crying.

was there and we were talking, I don't know about what, probably about life in Buffalo, whatever.

And my mother actually said to my friend, mind you, I'm a grown woman.

She said, well, Chris didn't remember her father's death.

She had no feelings about it.

She was too young to have feelings about it.

I remember saying to her, of course I had feelings about it.

I just had to suppress them all because Nana was gone.

I couldn't really talk to Nana.

Nana was devastated by the death of her son.

But then we moved away.

And my mother, as I said, was not a demonstrative woman.

So no memory of ever sitting on her lap or of her...

embracing me.

I remember one lady, shortly after my father died, was staying with us for a while, and I remember she said to me, how are you feeling?

Are you okay?