Sylvester Stallone Reveals He Learned Son Sage's Death in a Cold Phone Call: 'He's Gone. I'm Sorry. Click.'

Sylvester Stallone has reflected on the profound grief and guilt he experienced after losing his eldest son in 2012. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Michael Schilling/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Sylvester Stallone has revealed that he learned of his son Sage's death in a stark phone call in which he was simply told: 'He's gone. I'm sorry. Click.'

Speaking to The New York Times, Stallone recalled receiving the call on Friday the 13th in 2012 from his mother's then-husband, a doctor he had never met. The actor said the message left him struggling to process what he had just been told.