Sharon Stone said she hasn’t worked in Hollywood since she suffered a stroke in 2001, adding that in her business, if “something goes wrong with you, you’re out.”
During the 65-year-old actress‘ appearance at the “Raising Our Voices” luncheon, she said when she had her stroke more than 20 years ago, she had a “1% chance of survival,” Fox News reported.
“I had a nine-day brain bleed,” Stone said. “I recovered for seven years and I haven’t had jobs since. My contract changed. I have a maximum of a 14-hour day.”
“When it first happened, I didn’t want to tell anybody because, you know, if something goes wrong with you, you’re out,” she added. “Something went wrong with me: I’ve been out, for 20 years.”
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“I haven’t had jobs,” Stone continued. “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.”
During her remarks at the luncheon, the “Casino” star also talked about the pushback she said she received when she drew boundaries in Hollywood and tried to be her own advocate.
“I want to tell you that it hurt,” Stone said. “It hurt to get paid. 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.”
“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,” she added. “This has caused me a lot of problems in the business. This has caused me not to be hired.”
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The “Basic Instinct” star previously made headlines after she posted what she called an “imperfect” topless photo of her and her girlfriends hanging out by the pool.
“Gratefully Imperfect on a Perfect Day,” Sharon captioned the post shared with her 3.2 million followers.