It took seven years for Sharon Stone to physically recover after a stroke nearly ended her life in 2001 ā and the health crisisā 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.
āPeople took advantage of me over that time,ā the actor said. āI 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 ā everything was in other peopleās names. I had zero money.ā
Stone, then 43, was in seemingly good health when she suffered her stroke.
After a string of well-received performances in films like āBasic Instinctā and āCasino,ā she was considered a major box office draw at the time, too.
But the stroke significantly affected Stoneās health, with the actorĀ telling Brain & Life magazineĀ in 2018: āI came out of the hospital looking like teeth on a stick.
At that time, they didnāt have stroke recovery programs. Months later, I was really, really struggling.ā
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.
āA Buddhist monk told me that I had been reincarnated into my same body,ā she said. āI 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 wasnāt positioned in my head where it was before.ā
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