Sharon Stone claims suffering stroke caused her to lose $18 million
Basic Instinct star Sharon Stone has discussed feeling neglected by Hollywood following the stroke she endured in 2001. The actor also revealed that she lost millions of dollars in the process.
After appearing in many acclaimed movies in the 1990s, including Total Recall, Casino, The Mighty and Antz, she suffered a brain haemorrhage that lasted nine days and a stroke. As a result, Stone had to take several years away from Hollywood to recover.
On Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace, she previously explained, “I had a massive stroke. In 2001, I had a nine day brain haemorrhage, and a massive, very debilitating stroke.”
This caused her to lose her place in the industry, she revealed, “But when I couldn’t come back, because I couldn’t remember my lines, and I couldn’t function for quite some time, I was pretty much shoved to the back of the line.”
Stone felt the incident had caused her to lose everything, adding, “Once you’re in the back of the line, getting back to the front of the line isn’t about whether you made a lot of blockbusters and billions of dollars for your industry. It’s ‘you don’t really matter anymore.’ I don’t know if I really abandoned is really the correct word. But I felt that I lost my film family.”
Not only did she lose her “film family,” but, in a new interview with the Hollywood Reporter, she revealed that she also lost lots of money. “People took advantage of me,” she said. “I had $18m 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.” Stone claimed that she “had zero money.”
The actor returned to the big screen with 2003’s Cold Creek Manor before taking on three roles in 2004 – Catwoman, Broken Flowers and A Different Loyalty – then taking another year out in 2005. It was hard for Stone to get back on the acting wagon, but she has chosen to remain hopeful.
“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,” she stated.
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