British actress Kate Beckinsale has shared a poignant and unexpectedly humorous insight into her family life during a period of profound grief, revealing the unique bond she shares with her daughter's boyfriend.
A Heartfelt Revelation on Late-Night TV
The Serendipity star, 52, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday night to promote her new film Wild Cat, where she candidly discussed the 'tough couple of years' her family has endured. Beckinsale lost her beloved mother, Judy Loe, to cancer in July, which came just 18 months after the death of her stepfather, Roy, in January 2024.
She admitted to being 'paralysed' with grief, but revealed that an unlikely source provided a much-needed bright spot. 'Literally the only bright spot in the whole time came from him,' Kate said, referring to her daughter Lily Sheen's boyfriend.
The Bizarre Egg-Laying Mystery
Without naming Lily's beau, Beckinsale launched into a strange story that brought unexpected laughter into her life. 'He laid two eggs in a week is what the bright spot was,' she told a bemused Jimmy Kimmel and his audience.
Recounting the peculiar incident, Kate explained that the boyfriend 'went to the bathroom and then was very surprised to find that he had laid an egg,' insisting that 'it had a shell and a yolk' and emerged 'the route that it would come out a hen.' The first time it occurred, he was 'genuinely scared,' and a week later, Lily sent her mother a text announcing 'he's done it again.'
Beckinsale even showed a photograph of one of the eggs to Kimmel, prompting the host to exclaim, 'Your daughter's boyfriend is the Easter Bunny - there's no other way to explain this!' Kate confessed she 'got very involved' in the mystery, as she desperately needed a distraction from the overwhelming sadness.
A Mother's Tribute and Ongoing Grief
Following the TV appearance, which viewers described as 'the strangest, yet funniest, interview I've ever seen,' Kate took to Instagram. She shared a sweet throwback photo of herself hugging her 26-year-old daughter, Lily, whom she shares with ex-partner Michael Sheen. The caption, which she later deleted, read: 'Sorry for everything. I love you and always have more than anything in the wide world.'
Earlier this month, Beckinsale unveiled a new tattoo tribute to her late mother on her arm, featuring a sketch of Judy from 1971. It sits below another tattoo that reads 'Fatherless sc*m' in tribute to her late father, Richard Beckinsale, who died in 1979, and her stepfather Roy. Alongside the post, she poignantly wrote, 'If everyone would stop dying I wouldn't have so many tattoos.'
Last month, Kate shared poignant snaps from her mother's funeral at Chiswick House, which she described as a 'celebration of her life' where attendees honoured Judy's wish not to wear black. In a lengthy and emotional caption, Kate reflected on her ongoing sorrow, admitting she still feels 'blindsided and devastated' and often goes to call her mother before realising no one will answer.
The family's tragedy is compounded by history, as Judy was previously widowed by the shock death of her first husband, Richard Beckinsale, in 1979 when Kate was just five years old.
