Jamie Lee Curtis revealed she became a grandmother during an interview with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson on their IMO (In My Opinion) podcast on Tuesday.
The announcement was made all the more profound when Curtis admitted the birth of her grandchild happened just a week after the deaths of her dear friends Rob and Michele Reiner.
The Freaky Friday actress, 67, who adopted two daughters with her husband Christopher Guest, said that her eldest child Annie, 39, and son-in-law Jason Wolf welcomed their first son into the world during a very emotional time for the family.
'My husband and I became grandparents,' Curtis tearfully told Obama and co-host Robinson, who is the former First Lady's brother. 'Their baby boy was born in December. And it was a week after Rob and Michele [died].'
The late film director and his wife were Annie's godparents, 'and they died on her birthday,' the Scarpetta star continued.
Curtis, who appeared to clap back at Timothee Chalamet's controversial ballet and opera comments, reflected on the contrasting feelings of the time because of the tragic deaths of her friends, who were slain in their Los Angeles home on December 14. The couple's son Nick has been charged with their murders.
Curtis noted that 'colleagues and friends and people we all admired' were also mourning the couple.
'And then my daughter and her husband brought their son to this world a week later,' she said. 'Life on life's harshest terms and life on life's most beautiful terms.'
She added, 'I never thought I would have children. I never thought in my wildest dreams I would be a grandma. A granny. I want to be Granny.'
Curtis, whose parents were Hollywood legends Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, grew emotional as she revealed her daughter's response to learning that Obama's podcast would break the baby news.
'[I] said, "I'm about to do this thing, I think it's gonna come up. How would you feel about me talking about it?" She said, "Tell her I love her." My daughter Annie said, "Tell her I love her,"' Curtis described through tears.
Curtis told Obama that her daughter has so much love for her.
'You are loved and so respected that she would say, "Yes, Mom; you can talk about it to Michelle Obama; she’s a G,"' the mom-of-two recalled, referring to a term that means a woman is respected, highly admired and often fearless.
Annie Guest and her husband Jason Wolf welcomed a baby boy during a very emotional time for the family.
Curtis and her husband Chrisopher Guest are parents to two adopted daughters: Ruby L. and Annie R.
The Oscar winner told the podcast hosts: 'I never thought I would have children. I never thought in my wildest dreams I would be a grandma. A granny.'
Curtis stars opposite Nicole Kidman in the Amazon Prime Video crime thriller series Scarpetta.
'Because she loves you because you represented love in the world and you brought love to the White House and beyond. And so it’s really thrilling to me that the first time I’m going to say to the universe that I became a granny is here with you.'
Curtis, who became the ultimate 'Scream Queen' thanks to her breakout role as Laurie Strode in the 1978 horror flick Halloween, also mentioned that her mother - who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho - wouldn't have approved of Everything, Everywhere, All At Once, which garnered Curtis the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2023.
'I can tell you right now if my mom had been alive during Everything Everywhere All At Once she would not have liked... I mean I don't think she would have liked the movie,' Curtis stated.
'I'm not speaking ill of my beautiful mother,' she explained. 'I think that would have challenged every norm. Because in her years as an actress being an actress meant a facade. Very much about what you looked like and how women were perceived and their bodies.'