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”.
It's the new term du jour of the year..."being present". At least the term "lean in" is losing popularity, ugh
That would set her up for a defamation / slander lawsuit...............
Even if true?
Slander No, Defamation , yes.
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Remember her from her Alan Quartermain movies from the 1980s. Then her near porn from the 1990s, then she disappeared.
Remembering what happened to Howard Hughes when he died on an aircraft flight surrounded by “assistants”....It is as if the human vultures gather before the death and...wait...
I used to think most people were good. I’m still having trouble not making revisions to that.
God knew, all along; “The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?” Jeremiah 17:9
Geez, look, they even stole her hair.
“My refrigerator, my phone – everything was in other people’s names.
= = =
I’d better look for the title for my refrigerator.
I haven’t seen it for quite a while.
The rich seem to often have the worst medical care.
How about $18 million in one bank account....that is a tad above the FDIC 250K.
Lol.
Most folks with serious money have it diversified all over the place—with multiple bank accounts being one piece.
Con-gress
Thanks!
She was damaged before she had her stroke.
Bottom line, all humans are born evil.
“As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one” Romans 3:10
Ping to Max Americana.
Excellent observation.
Family members? Agent(s)?
I like her in movies, but I remember another actress complaining that Sharon was using her body to get what she wants, literally rubbing up against the director.
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