Sharon Stone told in an interview how her life was in serious danger three times.
Sharon Stone (62, "Basic Instinct") is one of the strong Hollywood beauties who established a new image of women with her portrayals, combining eroticism and intelligence on the screen. But with all the admiration and success, the private life of the mother of three and wife who was divorced twice was marked by low blows.
Stone will also report on these low blows in her biography, which is due to appear early next year. Before that, however, she gave three anecdotes in an interview with the British tabloid newspaper "The Sun" in which she barely jumped at death.
Just missed the carotid artery
Stone grew up with three siblings on a farm in the US province. As a 14-year-old, she overlooked a clothesline during a ride that almost cut her carotid artery. A scar remained. Later she was almost struck by lightning when she turned on the tap in the house of her parents, who used a well inlet.
Lightning struck the well and conducted the electricity through the water into her body. Stone also described the serious accident in an interview with podcast host Brett Goldstein (40): "I flew through the kitchen against the refrigerator." Her mother would have slapped her to bring her back to consciousness. She would have been in the hospital for ten days.
"I felt like I was shot in the head"
In 2001 Stone had another serious near-death experience. All of a sudden she suffered a stroke, which resulted in a cerebral hemorrhage that lasted nine days. "I felt like I was shot in the head," recalls Stone. Almost two dozen IUDs had to be implanted in her head to stop the bleeding.
It took Stone seven years in all to fully recover from it. She had to learn to walk, see, speak and read again. Today she still has to take medication to protect against relapse. "I thought for a long time I was going to die even after I got home," said the actress.
In addition to the physical strain, Stone also temporarily lost custody of her eldest child. She couldn't work and had to put acting in the background, rearrange her private life. Her marriage to journalist Phil Bronstein (62) broke up a short time later.