Natalie Wood's daughter confronts very painful way she learned Hollywood icon had died at 11

Natasha Gregson Wagner was just 11 years old when an ordinary childhood sleepover turned into a moment that shattered her world.

While staying at a friend's house, she heard the devastating news on the radio: her mother, Hollywood actress Natalie Wood, was dead.

"As a child, I always knew my mom was home because her Jungle Gardenia scent arrived before she did," Gregson Wagner, now 56, wrote on the website for her fragrance brand, L'Amour Mere.

"After she died, I spent hours lying in her bed or sitting in her closet among her clothes.

If I could somehow keep her fragrance alive, perhaps she would not be entirely gone." CHARLIZE THERON RECOUNTS THE NIGHT HER MOTHER FATALLY SHOT HER FATHER WHEN SHE WAS 15 YEARS OLD In the immediate aftermath of Wood's death, Gregson Wagner said the two father figures in her life — her biological father, British film producer Richard Gregson, and her stepfather, actor Robert Wagner — came together to support her.

"Luckily, I had these two men, Daddy Gregson and Daddy Wagner, who came together and rose to the occasion and completely put me first," Gregson Wagner told the Daily Mail .

"They got me into therapy right away, and I had that same amazing therapist here in Beverly Hills until my 20s." Wood, who was nominated for three Oscars and starred in "West Side Story" and "Rebel Without a Cause," was on the family's yacht with Wagner, actor Christopher Walken and captain Dennis Davern during Thanksgiving weekend in 1981.

Her body was found floating in the water off Southern California's Catalina Island.

She was 43.

WATCH: ROBERT WAGNER'S MOST MEMORABLE ROLES, FROM ‘HART TO HART’ TO ‘AUSTIN POWERS’ Investigators initially ruled Wood's death an accidental drowning but reopened the case in 2011 to determine whether Wagner or anyone else played a role after the yacht's captain said he heard the couple arguing the night of her disappearance, The Associated Press reported.

The Los Angeles County coroner's office amended Wood's death certificate in 2012, changing the cause of death to "drowning and other undetermined factors." In 2018, Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators described Wagner as "a person of interest" in Wood's death.

In 2022, the department said it had exhausted all leads in the case, and Wagner was no longer considered a person of interest.

Wagner has long denied having any involvement in his wife's death.

Gregson Wagner said that while she was growing up, her two fathers were determined to give her a normal upbringing away from the glaring media spotlight.