“I found a very empathetic funeral home owner … She said, ‘We’ll bring Ben Ben to you’.”

And Riley said: “It was really important for my mom to have ample time to say goodbye to him, the same way she’d done with her dad.”

Riley and her mum decided to get Benjamin’s name tattooed in the same place where he had theirs – the collarbone for his sister, and hand for his mum.

With the tattoo artist round to do the inking, Riley told Oprah: “He’s like, ‘Okay, do you have any photos?’ Kind of a thing. And she was, like, ‘No – but I can show you.'”

She added: “And I was just sitting there, like, this is … I stayed quiet because it’s my mom. She – she does what she wants. But it was definitely one of the most, like, absurd moments.”

And Riley recalled the awkward interaction in the memoir as she summarised: “I’ve had an extremely absurd life, but this moment is in the top five.”

Considering the circumstances, the star said the tattoo artist was ‘very normal about the whole thing’.