Rachael Stirling finds she was once ‘scared’ of her well-known mom Dame Diana Rigg and says she ‘disapproved’ of her following in her TV footsteps

Rachael Stirling has admitted she was once ‘s*** scared’ of her well-known mom Dame Diana Rigg.

The English actress, 47, mentioned her mom Dame Diana Rigg attempted to stop her following in her footsteps into showbusiness and was once ‘disapproving’ of her paintings.

‘I used to be s*** frightened of her truly,’ she confessed whilst talking at the Rosebud podcast.

Rachael – who has starred in Doctor Who, Tipping The Velvet and The Bletchley Circle – added: ‘She was once disapproving and more or less dismissive of my paintings… it wasn’t nice.’

Rachael implied there may were a component of jealousy and ‘pageant’ from former Bond girl Dame Diana, who died in 2020 elderly 82.

‘I seemed precisely like her, which was once tense when she was once getting old,’ she went on. 

Rachael additionally admitted she was once ‘s***-scared’ of her mum who starred in Game of Thrones and James Bond (pictured in combination in 2012)

‘She was once moderately white-knuckled about conserving directly to the reins and no longer letting me do it [acting].

‘She kind of ring-fenced her occupation. And I used to be completely no longer allowed to visit drama faculty, even if she did.’

Rachael is married to husband Guy Garvey, who could also be an actor.

The actress and the Elbow frontman, 50, tied the knot at Manchester Town Hall in June 2016 after a 12 months of courting, and went directly to welcome son, Jack, six. 

Rachael additionally in the past spoke concerning the courting that Guy had along with her past due mom.

She described the bond her mom and husband shared, particularly earlier than her loss of life, which Guy known as ‘the sort of particular time’.

Rachael mentioned: ‘Guy was once very as regards to my mom. When we introduced her house to die in 2020 he was once so beneficiant and inviting, and I believe that my mum fell in love with him a bit bit.

‘When the primary lockdown lifted and he was once ready to return to his studio, she cherished the speculation of him going off to create. 

‘He’d move into her bed room to mention good-bye each and every morning and she or he’d say, “I shroud you in the cloak of inspiration. May the gods of poetry visit you.”

Rachael Stirling and husband Guy Garvey spread out about their romance, revealing their love tale started because of two A-list actors (pictured in combination in 2021)

‘She’d do that each day till she were given weaker and weaker, and on the finish she’d simply transfer her palms slowly and say, “Cloakie cloakie.” So that’s what Guy’s house studio is known as — Cloakie Cloakie.’

Guy added: ‘Rachael’s mom was once wonderful. It was once a privilege to percentage the closing month of her existence. We bonded over phrases and poetry, a love of the similar songwriters.

‘Rachael was once working round balancing drugs for her whilst I were given all of the beautiful chat. It was once the sort of particular time.’