The year 2001 was to change actress Sharon Stone’s life forever. In an interview, she reveals how a stroke almost killed her and how she apparently lost $18 million as a result.
In an extensive interview with “” actress Sharon Stone spoke about her breakthrough with “Basic Instinct”, misogynistic Hollywood and two things that changed her career and her life: her commitment to the non-profit organization Amfar, which supports AIDS research, and her stroke.
It was 1995 when Amfar founder Mathilde Krim asked Sharon Stone if she wanted to host a charity event. The actress agreed, even though she knew that her commitment to AIDS support could end her career. In the early 1990s, AIDS was still heavily stigmatized. The consequence for Sharon Stone: “I didn’t get any roles. I didn’t get any jobs. People rejected me without me knowing.”
Sharon Stone: Stroke changes her whole life
But five years later, Sharon Stone’s whole life was about to change. 23 years ago, in the middle of her divorce from her then-husband Phil Bronstein, doctors gave her a one percent chance of survival after a stroke. She lost the hearing in one ear. “I bled into my brain for nine days,” said Stone. Afterwards, her brain was no longer where it had been before. The stroke changed the entire way her brain worked: her sense of smell, her sense of touch and her vision. For several years, she was unable to read – even though she used to be the girl who hid in the closet with a flashlight just to read. “A lot of people thought I was going to die.”
Sharon Stone continued: “A Buddhist monk told me that I was reborn in the same body. I had a death experience and then they brought me back.”
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Her savings were gone
But when Sharon Stone recovered from her stroke seven years later, she was apparently broke. “People took advantage of me during that time. I had saved $18 million because I was so successful, but when I got back to my account, it was all gone.” Her refrigerator, her phone, everything was in someone else’s name.
She only overcame it because she let go. She did not hold on to her illness, her anger and her bitterness. “If you bite into the seed of bitterness, it never leaves you. But if you hold on to your faith, even if it is only the size of a mustard seed, you will survive.” She decided to live for joy and for a purpose.
Source: Stern
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