The two sons of the Hollywood legend Audrey Hepburn spoke out this week to recall how she raised them outside of the entertainment world.

“My mother was very present – picking me up at school, worrying about education, things like that,” Luca Dotti, 51, told Closer Weekly.

Dotti’s older brother Sean Hepburn Ferrer, 60, added that it was not until his teenage years that the now-film producer discovered his mother’s movies.

“I was back home in Switzerland,” he said. “[I found that] my mother kept all her awards, film memorabilia, costumes and photographs in the attic. That’s how I first discovered her films.”

Hepburn Ferrer went on to say that despite all of the success his mother had in the world of Hollywood, her family always came first.

“When I had to go to school and could no longer travel to be with her on the set, she gave up her career,” he said. “She felt the most valuable thing was family.”

Hepburn Ferrer then said that his mother settled “very contentedly” into domestic life in a Swiss farmhouse.

“I think she was very happy at home with her dogs and her cooking,” he explained. “Her secret to happiness was simple and unpretentious. She had a beautiful house, would pick fruit and make jams, run the dogs in the fields, have a whiskey at five o’clock and cook a great plate of pasta. It wasn’t complicated.”

“She loved having conversations as she walked,” Dotti chimed in to add, saying that his mother spent much of her free time in the garden.

“The joy of things blooming after a strong winter – in Switzerland we have hard winters – that was something she liked to share with us a lot,” he said.

Hepburn was only 63 years-old when she tragically died of cancer back in 1993. Her son Hepburn Ferrer opened up further about his normal upbringing last year.

“You know, we weren’t a Hollywood family,” he said at the time. “I didn’t grow up in a home with screening rooms and my mother didn’t behave like a movie star. I later realized she was different when there would be paparazzi while she was picking me up from school… But when we were living in Switzerland, I remember there were two black and white TV channels. Once in a while, people would say, ‘Look, your mom’s on TV.’ But as a young kid, you don’t really worry about those things so much.”