January 16, 2018
Actress Sharon Stone says she there was a time when she had
just "five per cent chance" of surviving. It was when she suffered brain
haemorrhage in 2001.
Stone, 59, told CBS News that she had to re-learn
"everything" when her life was "wiped out" as a result of the medical condition,
reports femalefirst.co.uk.
The actress, who will be returning to TV in
Steven Soderbergh's "Mosaic", said: "There was about a five per cent chance of
me living. My whole life was wiped out. Others aren't that interested in a
broken person. I was alone.
"I'm sure I seemed peculiar coming through
this all these years, and I didn't want to tell everybody what was happening
because, you know, this is not a forgiving environment. I'm so grateful to have
this. The chance of my having it was so slim."
While the "Basic Instinct"
star is back in the film industry again, she still has some alone time and likes
to spend some of it talking to her tree.
"I talk to my tree... it's
pretty fabulous, it smells so great," said Stone, who has adopted sons Roan, 17,
Laird, 12, and Quinn, 11.
She says she has "seen it all" in the
entertainment industry over the last 40 years, and is pleased to see women are
becoming more "empowered".
Asked if she has ever been in a position when
she has felt "uncomfortable", she laughed and replied: "Oh, I've been in this
business for 40 years. Can you imagine the business I stepped into 40 years ago?
"Looking like I look, from nowhere, Pennsylvania? I didn't come here with
any protection. I've seen it all. We're starting to acknowledge our own gifts as
women and not think that we have to behave as men in order to be empowered or
powerful or valuable," she said.