In this century, will Sharon Stone be considered a legend?
Twenty years after her near-death experience, Sharon Stone claims she’s “become more comfortable with publicly saying what’s really happened to me.” The actress had a nine-day brain bleed from a burst vertebral artery in 2001, and doctors gave her a 1 percent chance of survival. Stone, then 65, was enjoying great success in both his personal and professional lives. Five years earlier, for Casino, she had gotten her first Oscar nomination. Additionally, she had adopted her now 23-year-old son Roan months before with her ex-husband, newspaper editor Phil Bronstein. (Since then, she has adopted two additional boys, Quinn, 17, and Laird, 18, as sons.)
“For a long time I wanted to pretend that I was just fine,” Stone recounts. “In order to prevent seizures, my brain medicine needs to be taken for eight hours straight. I don’t get employed very often since I am a disability hire. I am now transparent about the issues that I have been coping with for the last 22 years.” Stone experienced a difficult time after the incident. Her marriage broke down (she and Bronstein divorced in 2004), and she claims that Hollywood ceased contacting.
“I lost everything,” she declares. “All of my money was lost. I couldn’t keep my kid. My career was lost. I lost what you considered to be your true self and your existence.” “I never really got most of it back,” she continues, “but I’ve reached a point where I’m okay with it, where I really do recognize that I’m enough.”
