Sharon Stone (65) was the sex symbol par excellence of the 90s. After debuting on the big screen with Woody Allen in 1980, her popularity was established thanks to her performance in Desafío Total alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger. She was on the cover of Playboy magazine and starred in Basic Instinct, a sexually charged film that made her an international femme fatale.
Stone occupied a privileged place in Hollywood alongside other stars such as Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan and Demi Moore. She was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Casino, and won a Golden Globe for best actress for the same production. Even so, five years later she suffered an accident that affected the development of her professional career.
The performer and beauty icon meets exclusively with People to explain her injury and what consequences it still has to this day. Twenty-two years after the accident she feels “more comfortable publicly explaining what really happened to me.”
In 2001, Sharon Stone suffered a ruptured vertebral artery that bled her brain for nine days, and doctors predicted she had a 1% chance of survival. The actress was in top personal and professional shape. After being nominated for several awards during the 90s, and months after adopting her son Roan (23) with her ex-husband Phil Bronstein, her life took an unexpected turn.
"For a long time I wanted to pretend that I was fine," Stone confesses, although he began his recovery with vision problems, stutters and amnesia. Even so, her injury triggered the darkest period of the actress's life: she divorced press editor Phil Bronstein in 2004, and she believes that Hollywood stopped counting on her. "I lost everything. I lost all my money. I lost custody of my son. I lost my career. I lost all those things that you feel are your true identity and your life."
To this day he still suffers the consequences of the accident. “I need eight hours of uninterrupted sleep for my medication to work and not have seizures, I am disabled, and that is why they don't hire me much. This is what I have been dealing with for the last 22 years, and now I can finally be open about it,” she explains.
Sharon Stone sits on the board of the Barrow Neurological Foundation, which supports the medical institute run by its neurosurgeon, Dr Michael Lawton. The doctor considers that the actress “is an inspiration for those who suffer from a neurological disease.”
The interpreter explains her story to help others. "I come from a very unstructured family. I grew up believing that taking care of others was what I should do. It took me a long time to understand that I had my own life and that I didn't have to take care of others, and that it was okay for me to receive care, that was enough for me as a disabled person. I am proud of myself and my achievements: from surviving to helping others survive."
Sharon Stone's health has been up and down in recent years. In 2022 she announced that she had a fibroid tumor that needed to be removed. Fibroid tumors are usually non-cancerous masses that grow in the uterus, also known as myoma, leiomyoma, leiomyomata or fibromyoma.
