Sharon Stone sat down for a revealing interview with Lee Cowan on “CBS Sunday Morning”, and had a unique response when asked if she had ever experienced sexual misconduct during her Hollywood career.
“I don’t know how to ask this in a delicate way,” asked Cowan, “but were you ever in a position like that, that you felt that you were uncomfortable?”
This led the 59-year-old “Basic Instinct” star to pause momentarily before bursting into laughter, leaving Cowan a bit confused.
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“‘You’re laughing,” asked the interviewer tentatively, “but I don’t know if that’s a nervous laugh, or an are-you-kidding-me-of-course-I-was laugh?”
Stone explained her response. “Oh, I’ve been in this business for 40 years, Lee,” she said. “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.”
In another part of the interview, Stone opened up about suffering a debilitating stroke followed a cerebral hemorrhage back in 2001, which left her unable to walk, talk or even read.
As she told Cowan, her medical crisis was far more serious than the general public realized at the time.
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“There was about a five per cent chance of me living,” she admitted. “My whole life was wiped out.”
Yet at the time, Stone felt she was unable to share the truth about what had happened to her for fear she would never work again. “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.”
You can watch the interview in its entirety above.
