Natasha Gregson Wagner was just 11 years old when an ordinary childhood sleepover turned into a moment that shattered her world.While staying at a friend's house, she heard the devastating news on the radio: her mother, Hollywood actress Natalie Wood, was dead."As a child, I always knew my mom was home because her Jungle Gardenia scent arrived before she did," Gregson Wagner, now 56, wrote on the website for her fragrance brand, L'Amour Mere."After she died, I spent hours lying in her bed or sitting in her closet among her clothes.
If I could somehow keep her fragrance alive, perhaps she would not be entirely gone."CHARLIZE THERON RECOUNTS THE NIGHT HER MOTHER FATALLY SHOT HER FATHER WHEN SHE WAS 15 YEARS OLDNatalie Wood’s (left) daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner (right), recently opened up about losing the Hollywood icon at just 11 years old and carrying on her mother’s legacy.Gregson Wagner celebrated her birthday on Sept.
29, 2026.(Jack Mitchell/Getty Images; Casey Flanigan/IndieWire/Penske Media via Getty Images)In the immediate aftermath of Wood's death, Gregson Wagner said the two father figures in her life — her biological father, British film producer Richard Gregson, and her stepfather, actor Robert Wagner — came together to support her."Luckily, I had these two men, Daddy Gregson and Daddy Wagner, who came together and rose to the occasion and completely put me first," Gregson Wagner told the Daily Mail.
"They got me into therapy right away, and I had that same amazing therapist here in Beverly Hills until my 20s."Wood, who was nominated for three Oscars and starred in "West Side Story" and "Rebel Without a Cause," was on the family's yacht with Wagner, actor Christopher Walken and captain Dennis Davern during Thanksgiving weekend in 1981.Her body was found floating in the water off Southern California's Catalina Island.
She was 43.WATCH: ROBERT WAGNER'S MOST MEMORABLE ROLES, FROM ‘HART TO HART’ TO ‘AUSTIN POWERS’Investigators initially ...