Sharon Stone Claims She Was Dropped By Hollywood When She Got Sick

Throughout the 1990s, Sharone Stone held a prominent position as one of the most highly acclaimed divas in the entertainment industry. Her impressive filmography included notable works like Basic Instincts, Total Recall, Silver, and The Quick and the Dead.

However, in 2001, a serious health crisis struck the actress, which forever altered the trajectory of her professional journey, which she had dedicated years of hard work to achieve. Recently, while speaking at The Hollywood Reporter‘s ‘Raising our Voices’ event, the 65-year-old revealed that Hollywood wasn’t there for her during the dark phase of her life.

Sharon Stone narrates her experience in Hollywood

“I had a stroke in 2001. I had a 1% chance of survival. I had a nine-day brain bleed. I recovered for seven years, and I haven’t had jobs since. My contract changed. I have a maximum of a 14-hour day,” she explained. “When it first happened, I didn’t want to tell anybody because, you know, if something goes wrong with you, you’re out. Something went wrong with me: I’ve been out for 20 years.”

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“I haven’t had jobs. I was a very big movie star at one point in my life,” Stone laments. “I broke a lot of glass ceilings with the top of my head.”

The actress believes her commitment to fair treatment in the movie industry cost her lots of opportunities

Stone stated that during her early years in the spotlight, she was committed to the cause of equitable treatment and remuneration of actors, which later came back to hunt her. “I want to tell you that it hurt. It hurt to get paid,” she admitted. “It hurt to fight with studio heads. It hurt to make boundaries – boundaries about who could come in my trailer and what they could ask for – boundaries about the fact that I didn’t want to sign my contract in my makeup trailer on the day that I started a show.”

She concluded that promoting her unbiased view impeded her growth within the Industry. “It hurt to say that I had, like any corporation, the opportunity to have my lawyer read my contract and that I didn’t have to start the show signing my unread contract in the makeup trailer. This has caused me a lot of problems in the business,” Stone said. “This has caused me not to be hired.”