“In all of that painful emotional chaos she still managed to teach me something super important,” he wrote.
“Mama lioness looked at me deeply and said affection was a good thing and don’t let others embarrass me for being naturally affectionate.
Shake one’s hand with tenderness and meaning,” Coppola went on to say.
“She held me and told me softly that affection was a good thing and one day I may understand or not but I should always remember I was her affectionate cub,” his story concluded.
She went through these episodes of poetry — I don’t know what else to call it,” he said in the interview.