“When you’re weak, you accept anything,” she said.
The actress was separated from her mother, Najah, after escaping Syria to Germany in 2015.
Sirine gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Ischtar, in Berlin, and she wanted nothing more than to meet her mother. But before they got an opportunity, tragedy struck.
In 2018, Najah, 82, passed away unexpectedly due to kidney failure.
“She was a guiding force in my life,” Sirine says about her mother. “She taught me to love myself.
“The whole situation was cruel because it occurred unexpectedly.
“I desperately wanted her to meet my daughter.