It took seven years for Sharon Stone to physically recover after a stroke nearly ended her life in 2001 — and the health crisis’ toll on her finances was similarly devastating.
In a wide-ranging Hollywood Reporter interview published Tuesday, Stone said she lost a staggering amount of her fortune while she was recuperating.
“People took advantage of me over that time,” the actor said. “I had $18 million 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. I had zero money.”
Stone, then 43, was in seemingly good health when she suffered her stroke.
After a string of well-received performances in films like “Basic Instinct” and “Casino,” she was considered a major box office draw at the time, too.
But the stroke significantly affected Stone’s health, with the actor telling Brain & Life magazine in 2018: “I came out of the hospital looking like teeth on a stick.
At that time, they didn’t have stroke recovery programs. Months later, I was really, really struggling.”
That close brush with mortality, the Oscar nominee told The Hollywood Reporter, not only impacted her day-to-day routine moving forward but also prompted her to reexamine both her personal life and career.
“A Buddhist monk told me that I had been reincarnated into my same body,” she said. “I had a death experience and then they brought me back.
I bled into my brain for nine days, so my brain was shoved to the front of my face. It wasn’t positioned in my head where it was before.”
