Sharon Stone, the ‘Basic Instinct’ star, 66, gives a candid interview to The Hollywood Reporter about the financial condition after a stroke in 2001.
Sharon Stone also highlighted the sexual assault allegations against Kevin Spacey and said that Spacey is hated for being gay not for the allegations.
Sharon opened up about how the stroke — which led to a nine-day brain bleed and made her step away from Hollywood — changed the way she thinks.
“A Buddhist monk once told me that I had been reincarnated into my same body,” Sharon Stone recalled. “I had a near-death experience, and they brought me back. I bled into my brain for nine days, pushing my brain to the front of my face. It wasn’t where it used to be.”
“Everything changed during that time,” she explained. “My sense of smell, my sight, my touch. I couldn’t read for a couple of years. Things looked stretched, and I saw color patterns. Many people thought I was going to die.”
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This period also led to people taking advantage of her, and she quickly lost the millions she had saved. “I had $18 million saved from my success, but when I checked my bank account, it was all gone. My refrigerator, my phone—everything was in other people’s names,” Stone shared. “I had zero money.”
Despite these hardships, Stone chose not to be bitter. “I decided to stay present and let go,” she admitted. “I chose not to hold onto being sick or any bitterness or anger. If you bite into the seed of bitterness, it never leaves you. But if you hold faith, even if it’s the size of a mustard seed, you will survive.”
“So, I live for joy now,” she added. “I live for purpose.”
In the early stages of recovery from her stroke and brain hemorrhage, she couldn’t see correctly and suffered memory loss. She also developed “weird knuckle-like knots” on her head, feeling like she had been “punched,” she said. Last year, Stone told Vogue she initially hid her disability, fearing rejection. “I was afraid to go out and didn’t want people to know,” she said. “I thought no one would accept me.”
Sharon Stone on Kevin Spacey:
“After being in therapy for seven years, not being allowed to work, losing his home, losing everything, he should be allowed to come back,” Stone told the magazine. “He’s reached out to everybody he’s offended and said he’s sorry.” Stone went on to say that Spacey’s sexuality is more likely the cause of his ostracization than the allegations of assault and attempted rape made against him.