Sharon Stone Determined To Be Happy After Surviving Brain Bleed With One Percent Chance Of Survival

Sharon Stone is committed to staying positive 24 years after she had a serious brain bleed that almost took her life and career. At the recent 2025 Golden Globes Awards on Sunday, Sharon Stone presented the Best Foreign Film award and shared her perspective on the world she lives in.

“I think that you get to choose how you view the world, and I choose to be happy, which, I think, is a discipline. And so that’s what I do.” She shared. Sharon’s nine-day brain bleed in 2001 left her with a 1 percent chance of survival, and with the medical practitioners assuming that she was faking her pain, she would have passed away in the process.

Inside Sharon Stone’s near-fatal brain bleed

Sharon Stone fought for life with an unwavering determination. She recovered from the brain bleed seven years after the surgery and recalled feeling “hurt that the world moved on without” her. At the time, she did not dare to speak up about what was happening to her, especially because her career was on the line.

However, Sharon is now more comfortable talking about the experience that turned her whole life around. During the Raising Our Voices luncheon in June 2023, she recalled, “I haven’t had jobs. I was a very big movie star at one point in my life. I broke a lot of glass ceilings with the top of my head.”

Sharon Stone now

In May 2024, Sharon Stone referred to her recovery from her brain bleed as “one of those beautiful miracles.” And in December, the actress shared with tears in her eyes, what she would have loved to tell her younger self. “You’re going to make it. You don’t know it, but you’re going to make it. I would have it tattooed on the inside of my eyelids.”

Sharon Stone’s pain and inability to speak up led her to become an activist for the World Health Organization. “It is important to me that your diversity does not get wiped out by the idea of this anti-woke bull in our country.” Presently, Sharon Stone is also an artist and a painter and she enjoys what she does.