Sharon Stone opens up about stroke, loss of millions, and recovery

In 2001, Sharon Stone suffered a stroke. For nine days, she experienced a brain haemorrhage. While fighting for her life, her fortune was squandered, resulting in the loss of several million pounds.

The star of "Basic Instinct" had a stroke in 2001. “If you have a really powerful headache, you need to go to the hospital. I ignored it for three or four days. Many people in such a situation die. I had a one percent chance of surviving when I got on the operating table. For a month, doctors were unsure if I would survive it all,” the actress said earlier. She openly discusses how much money she lost when her close ones started squandering her fortune.

The actress doesn't hold back and has spoken in interviews for years about her hospital experience. She also points out that she lost all her money and position in Hollywood due to the stroke. “I could barely walk. I had an unstable hip. I could hardly see out of my left eye or hear in my left ear. For three years, I couldn’t write my name and surname. My hand wasn’t listening to my brain, so I had to relearn how to write. I also had to learn to speak again. It took just as long to move my left leg normally,” she explained in 2018.

Recently, the actress gave an interview to "The Hollywood Reporter," where she revealed that, according to a Buddhist monk, she experienced a reincarnation within her body, suggesting she is a completely different person after the stroke. “I experienced death, and then they brought me back here once more. I bled into my brain for nine days. My brain is not in the same place it was before the stroke,” she stated.

The actress openly talks about how, while she was fighting to return to normality, her close ones stole her life savings. “I had saved up £13 million from my successes, but when I returned and checked my bank account, it was all gone. I had no fridge or phone—everything was in other people's hands. And I had zero money,” she added.

How did she deal with it? The actress didn't share a specific method for re-accumulating such savings but admitted: “I decided to live here and now. I don’t want to hold onto illness, envy, or anger. If you dive into it, those negative feelings will never leave you. But if you hold onto faith, even if it’s the size of a grain, you will survive.”

Although Sharon Stone says she has distanced herself from Hollywood, she has acted in over 30 films since her stroke. In 2003, she starred in "Cold Creek Manor." In recent years, she has acted in films and participated in mainstream productions such as Netflix’s "Ratched" and Max’s "The Flight Attendant."