Rachael Stirling says reports exaggerated her account of tasting her mother's ashes

Rachael Stirling is an actor and the only child of Diana Rigg, the actor known for roles in The Avengers and Game of Thrones.

Stirling has written a book about their relationship called All About My Mother.

In it, she says she nibbled a grain or two of her mother’s ashes.

She says headlines made this sound like she regularly ate her mother’s remains, a portrayal she rejects.

Rigg wanted to be cremated without a ceremony and have her ashes scattered in places she loved.

Stirling says she wrote the book to bring her mother back to life and share their complicated relationship.