The following article contains descriptions of child abuse.
“I don’t have time to fool around.
I’m here to be a healthy and present parent, a good daughter, and an engaged citizen.
Everything else is just a distraction.”
Let’s discuss what Sharon Stone has been through and how she’s still standing.
In a 2021 interview withThe New Yorker, Stone revealed an important “breakthrough” moment.
“When the breakthrough happened in my therapy, I just started screaming, ‘Who does that?’
She also discussed her grandfather’s threats and how she felt alienated from her sister, Kelly Stone.
“My grandfather threatened to kill me constantly.
She recalled the moment that ended her father’s abuse for good, due largely to her courageous actions.
she wrote (viaDaily Mail).
“I was 14.
He started to cry.
I told him I didn’t love him.
That I had never loved him.
That I would never love him.”
This was the moment of realization her father needed to change his ways.
She continued, “He was so heartbroken.
He never hit any one of us again.”
Despite the challenges she faced in her youth, the “Silver” actress remained incredibly optimistic about life.
It’s not really a sad thing.
It’s more life is so beautiful.”
One such survivor is Sharon Stone, who was struck by lightning as a teenager.
“The well got hit with lightning, and the lightning came up through the water.
Her mother helped her regain consciousness and took her directly to the hospital.
She hid a teen pregnancy
Sharon Stone is a mother to three children, all boys.
She adopted her first son, Roan, with her now ex-husband Phil Bronstein in 2000.
Raising her children has been a beautiful experience for Stone.
“I’m trying to allow them to be informed, thoughtful young men.”
I lost nine children by miscarriage.”
She shared, “It’s still an intriguing film, but could it be made now?
I doubt that it would have any form of the sensationalism it had at the time.”
“It was horrible.
I was so humiliated,” Stone recalled.
I just wanted to crawl into a hole.”
However, something unexpected happened which would change her career trajectory forever.
Nobody was communicating with me."
Even after recovering, her life did not return to normal.
Something went wrong with me I’ve been out for 20 years."
“It broke my heart.
It literally broke my heart,” she explained.
She continued, “I was a mom with three beautiful little boys.
But there was something wonderful in that period of all those challenges.”
There’s no denying that Sharon Stone is a beautiful woman who has aged gracefully.
But beauty can come with a price, as she’s unfortunately experienced.
“People are incredibly unkind,” she said.
“They think if you’re beautiful, you must be stupid, you must be shallow.
If you’re beautiful, we should make you feel small or less.”
However, the actress explained that beauty should not be viewed as a negative trait.
“Every person has gifts.
If someone’s beautiful, for God’s sake, let them be beautiful,” she appealed.
“The weirdest s*** does happen to me.
I witness every weird car accident,” she told The New Yorker.
“Drunk guys smash their motorcycles and slide down past my car window.”
The star bemoaned these bizarrely common accidents in her life.
“It’s like, Why me?
Why am I the world’s witness to all things?”
Stone took to Twitter in 2022 (viaE!
This time double epidural.
Doing so, she claimed, “can stash your life.”
“When I was ill, I wasn’t able to come back to the business like a man.
I was sent to the back of the line to do episodic television, to scratch my way back.
There’s no power as a has-been movie star.”
The star has lost people she loves
Sharon Stone’s life has also not been without loss.
In 2023, her brother Patrick Stone died of a heart attack at just 57.
Family remains important to Stone, and she lives each moment truly appreciating the people she loves.
“‘You won’t always talk to each other.
But even then, you’ll love them.
And if you need someone, that’s who you’ll call.'”
Thankfully, there are still people in her life she loves deeply, including her sons.
