Posted on 07/10/2024 5:37:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
Sharon Stone has described how people “took advantage” of her financially while she was recovering from a near-fatal stroke.
The Basic Instinct star suffered a stroke in 2001 that led to a nine-day brain bleed, which forced her to step away from Hollywood for seven years while she recovered.
“People took advantage of me over that time,” the US actress told The Hollywood Reporter.
“I had $18m (£14m) saved because of all my success, but when I got back into my bank account, it was all gone.
“My refrigerator, my phone – everything was in other people’s names.
“I had zero money.”
The 66-year-old actress said instead of feeling bitter about her experience, she chooses to focus on the positive.
“I decided to stay present and let go. I decided not to hang on to being sick or to any bitterness or anger,” she said.
“If you bite into the seed of bitterness, it never leaves you. But if you hold faith, even if that faith is the size of a mustard seed, you will survive. So, I live for joy now. I live for purpose.”
‘A lot of people thought I was going to die’
Stone said the stroke changed the way her brain worked.
“A Buddhist monk told me that I had been reincarnated into my same body. I had a death experience and then they brought me back,” she said.
“I bled into my brain for nine days, so my brain was shoved to the front of my face. It wasn’t positioned in my head where it was before.
“And while that was happening, everything changed. My sense of smell, my sight, my touch. I couldn’t read for a couple of years. Things were stretched and I was seeing colour patterns.
“A lot of people thought I was going to die.”
Doctors ‘decided I was faking it’
Stone previously said doctors thought she was “faking” what turned out to be a brain haemorrhage that resulted from a ruptured vertebral artery.
She told Vogue last year: “They missed it with the first angiogram and decided that I was faking it.
“My best friend talked them into giving me a second one and they discovered that I had been haemorrhaging into my brain, my whole subarachnoid pool, and that my vertebral artery was ruptured. I would have died if they had sent me home.”
The actress said she takes medication daily to address the stuttering and severe brain issues.
Stone did not share details of her brain bleed for several years after it occurred because she was worried about public reaction.
She is now a board member of the Barrow Neurological Foundation in the US, which treats “devastating brain and spine conditions”.
Her decision to not become biter is truly wise and good.
Why would you be suing? Are you not familiar with ‘false negatives’?
2021 stroke, wonder if she had the shot?
And who was her guardian after the stroke?
Who paid her medical bills, her mortgage, her phone bill?
Sad to say, even $18 million doesn’t go as far as it used to.
2001...................
Children must be taught right from wrong from the start. Animal and untrained humans simply take.
There is a YouTube channel I recommend to you. Called “hoemath”, it includes many insightful descriptions of female behavior, one of which is a revision of the hot/crazy matrix.
Here is the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-y2mj3bC_c
I had never heard any of this before, but kind of wondered what had happened to her. Sounds like she might have a ways to go before this is finally all done with. I am wishing her the very best in her recovery.
Her movie roles were defiant telling the uptight men I can f—k anyone I want. She had the looks.
Then there’s Madonna. Made her fame on that same defiant attitude. Then came the plastic surgery-bleh!
Well, if they lost millions for taking advantage of her that sounds just.
I wouldn’t doubt it. Otherwise she probably would have had them arrested for fraud and theft.
They took HER millions................
I would have anyways.................
Read the headline, remember your grammar.
“yet there are some who say that people are basically good. I think not.”
My conclusion after many years is that true virtue is on a normal curve.
Perhaps 10% of folks are true saints—really care about others and would never take advantage of anyone.
Another 10% are sociopaths—treat their fellow humans as objects to be exploited in any way possible.
Then 80% are in the middle—under normal circumstances they will do the right thing but if peer pressure is strong enough or they are put in a corner they can do bad things.
An example was the medical profession during the Covid vaxxes.
Most medical folks are basically good people but when the peer pressure got strong enough most caved.
Look Sharon, if you want to “let it go” that’s great but if you won’t name whoever it was that took advantage of you I’m not inclined to be sympathetic.
“I decided to stay present and let go. I decided not to hang on to being sick or to any bitterness or anger,” she said.
Yet, here she is PRESENTLY whining.
🙃
For someone who once claimed a 140 IQ score, she’s sure made some questionable decisions...
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