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”.
Yep, people suck. They found a damaged person and took advantage of her.
Human beings are vultures. Scavengers and opportunistic predators.
It’s sad. I used to think most people were good. I’m still having trouble not making revisions to that.
She’s an outspoken, far Left actress who surrounded herself with similar people of no morals. Too bad, Sharon, life is all about choices.
The typical Hollywood denizen is a filthy,amoral scumbag. I doesn’t surprise me even a little bit that those around her would do that.
I am right there with you. The older I get the more I dislike people. I see all their flaws and see through the BS screens they put up to hide them (if they even attempt to)
Things like this do happen, including actresses making up and vastly dramatizing their life experiences for publicity.
So who knows.
Though the article doesn’t say it, I would bet that these ‘people’ were her relatives....................
All you have to do is look at the average Democrat, who goes around smiling to themselves. Meanwhile they knowingly support a thug party, and every form of immorality and discrimination.
And I don’t believe this story in its entirety. Her refrigerator was owned by someone else? Maybe.
While she was quite hot in her day, she pegged the crazy axis of the hot-crazy matrix.
Her ‘friends’ and her agent did this to her...
People are not good. At least by the innate nature they were born with.
Only God is inherently good.
Has the demand for reparations been formally declared?
I am still sorry she had that happen to her.
I would be suing some doctors....................
Does she mean that the far-lefty liberals of Hollyweird took advantage of her?
I’m shocked! SHOCKED I TELL YOU!
“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,”
Oh, brother. Still, what these people did to her is shameful and criminal. I didn’t notice if anyone is being protected for the theft.
What is WRONG with people?! And yet there are some who say that people are basically good. I think not.
Intelligent people would grasp the nature of humans in general, and the specific nature of far-left Liberals and conclude that allowing OTHER people to control your life is not wise. Sure, they can steal your savings. But they can also control your government, run up a debt of $34T, get us involved in wars, take away our rights and tax us into bankruptcy.
Small, weak government is the only choice.
A big powerful central government that can “help” people is only going to screw everybody over.
Liberals can’t see what is right in front of their face.
Genesis 6:
5 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. 6 The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.
Yes. I’m sorry for her. I’m glad she’s chosen to move on. With faith the size of a mustard seed?
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