"Every book I read was a twisted homage to her," he says of his mother.

"She's got no quality of life," she said of her mother.

"I just thought she forgot about me," he said of his biological mother.

The same can be said of Kournikova and her mother.

"She encouraged me to testify," she said of her mother, who died in 1990.

"What she did to me was a terrible, terrible thing," he says of his mother.

And she was always there for us;" Wanda says of her mother.

Paul barely heard the ceremony, his attention still centered on what had been said of his mother.

"They've always been very good about not putting pressure on me," she said of her mother and father.

That would be, as Bristol said of her mother, scary.