Sharon Stone's shocking stroke story: Millions lost, life transformed

Sharon Stone had a stroke in 2001. For nine days, she bled into her brain. While she was fighting for her life, her fortune was squandered. The actress lost several million dollars.

The star of "Basic Instinct" shared more details about her stroke. “If you have a really powerful headache, you need to go to the hospital. I ignored it for 3 or 4 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,” she said previously. She openly talks about how much money she lost when her close ones started squandering her fortune.

The actress doesn't hold back and has been discussing in interviews for years what she went through in the hospital. She also points out that she lost all her money and position in Hollywood because of the stroke. “I could barely walk. I had an unstable hip. I could hardly see in my left eye, and I couldn’t hear in my left ear. For 3 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 said in 2018.

Recently, the actress gave an interview to "The Hollywood Reporter," where she confessed that, according to one of the Buddhist monks, she experienced a reincarnation in her body and that 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 said.

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 $18 million from my successes, but when I came back and checked my bank account, it was all gone. I had no fridge, no phone—everything was in the hands of other people. And I had zero money,” she added.

How did she deal with it? The actress didn’t share a recipe for how to re-accumulate such savings but admitted: “I decided to live in the 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 not only acted in films but was also involved in mainstream productions—such as Netflix’s "Ratched" and Max’s "The Flight Attendant."