Sharon Stone maintains positive philosophy after near-fatal brain hemorrhage and financial woes
Sharon Stone still chooses to be happy 24 years after a near-fatal brain hemorrhage changed the course of her life forever.
Before presenting the award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California, on Sunday night, Stone told Fox News Digital that she believes people have a choice in how they see the world.
“I think you get to choose how you see the world, and I choose to be happy, and I think it’s a discipline. So that’s what I do,” Stone said.
24 years after her near-death experience, Sharon Stone chooses to be happy. (Getty Images)
The iconic actress, who rose to fame in the 1990s with breakout roles in Basic Instinct and Casino, spoke to BBC News in December about the advice she would give to her younger self .
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“You’re going to make it,” Stone told the media while crying. “You don’t know, but you’re going to make it. I’m going to have it tattooed on the inside of my eyelid. I’ve wondered about it so many times.”
“I think you get to choose how you see the world, and I choose to be happy, and I think that’s a discipline. So that’s what I do.”
She continued: “When I was lying on the floor and couldn’t find the ambulance. When I came home [from the hospital] I read in People magazine that for 30 days we wouldn’t know if I was alive or dead.
After suffering a brain hemorrhage in 2001, Stone told the press that she became “a very different person.” Even her taste in food changed, she explained.
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Through it all, Stone chose to remain resilient.
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“We can choose to moan and groan, or we can choose pleasure. I think you have to continue to choose pleasure,” Stone told BBC News. “Stay there. You fell. Get up. Someone pushed you down. Now they want to help you get up. Let them.”
In May, Stone appeared in the UK’sgood morning britain” and talked about how her career pivoted from acting to activism after a “near-death experience.”
In 2001, Sharon Stone suffered a nine-day brain hemorrhage. (Stefano Guidi)
“I went to the first hospital and had an MRI, and the results were like this near death experience He was later transferred to a specialist hospital. My brain bled for nine days before my best friend convinced me to [the doctors] “Look again,” she said at the time. “Thank God they did because they realized what happened and how it happened and were able to fix it at the last minute.”
“It’s truly one of those beautiful miracles,” she added. “Of course, I’m a different person and I have an invisible disability. People see you walking with a cane to help you, but when you have some brain function issues, people don’t know.” You need this. help.
The actress, who has been a World Health Organization campaigner for more than two decades, said her first steps in recovery lasted about “seven years.”
Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone starred in the 1992 film Basic Instinct. (Samsung/Getty Images)
“It takes a long time to lose momentum,” she said.
“Seven years later, you’re no longer the flavor of the day, you’re no longer a box office hit, and the people you’re working with are no longer in power,” she added. “Everything changes and people don’t really care about that person anymore. It’s like going back to your old job after seven years… You don’t just go back to your job and think nothing has changed.”
“I’m a little hurt that the world is going on without me,” she admits. “But I’ve gotten over it now.”
Sharon Stone has previously discussed “how the world can move on” without her after her brain haemorrhage. (Mondadori Portfolio)
In 2023, Stone further spoke about how her medical scare severely impacted her career.
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“I had a 1 percent chance of survival,” she said at a Raise Our Voices luncheon in June 2023. “I suffered a brain hemorrhage for nine days. I was in recovery for seven years, and I haven’t had a job since then. ,” she declared.
“I don’t have a job yet. There was a time in my life when I was a very big movie star. I broke a lot of glass ceilings with my head,” she admits.
Sharon Stone has worked for the World Health Organization for more than 20 years. (Andreas Rentz/ZFF Getty Images)
“I wanted to be heard, but since I didn’t feel like it, I decided to work so that your voice could be heard,” she continued. “For the past 20 years, I have been working for the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and governments around the world so that your voices can be heard. It is important to me that your diversity is not diminished because of racism. disappear. Anti-arousal Bull – the idea of our country.
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Now a dedicated artist and painter, Stone told Willie Guest in a 2021 interview with Willie Guest on Sunday Today Today that she has now found peace in her life.
Sharon Stone also worked for the United Nations. (Selçuk Akar/Anadolu, Getty Images)
“I’m really grateful,” she said. “When I was a kid, I always wanted to have a house full of running, screaming kids and dogs, and I did. I feel so blessed and happy with my life. We have so much fun together, what else could be more What’s good?
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“There’s nothing more freeing than being centered on yourself,” Stone added. “I tell my friends that my new motto is: ‘It’s never too late to be yourself.'”
Fox News Digital’s Christina Dugan Ramirez contributed to this report.
