Sharon Stone has admitted that her custody battle was handicapped by Basic Instinct.
The 64-year-old actress has reflected her role in the racy 1992 film was part of the reason she lost custody of her son Roan, now 22, whom she adopted with her ex Phil Bronstein.
appearing in iHeart’s Table for Two Podcast with Bruce Bozzi, she said: ‘I lost custody of my son. When the judge asked my son, my little, little boy, “Do you know that your mother makes sex movies?”
She alleged that it was “sort of abuse by the system”, noting that her role in the film made them question what she was like as a mother.
She added: ‘I was considered what kind of father I was, because I did that film.
Sharon Stone has admitted that her custody battle over adopted son Roan was marred by Basic Instinct and claimed that a judge asked her “little boy” if he “knew his mother made sex movies”.
Roan (pictured with Sharon in 2021) was adopted in 2000 during Stone’s marriage to journalist Phil Bronstein.
In Basic Instinct, Sharon plays a calculating killer and Michael Douglas is the homicide detective who becomes obsessed with her.
But she said: “People are walking around without clothes on regular TV now and you saw maybe a sixteenth of a second of my potential nudity and I lost custody of my son.”
Sharon noted that the situation affected her physical and mental health.
She explained: ‘I ended up at the Mayo Clinic with extra heartbeats in the upper and lower chambers of my heart… It broke my heart. It literally broke my heart.
She has opened up about the custody battle in the past, although she did not reveal the reason she lost custody at the time due to a confidentiality agreement and out of “respect” for her son.
Sharon was married to Roan’s father, Phil Bronstein, now 70, from 1998 to 2004.
Stone wanted a family with Phil, but was having trouble conceiving. The star suffered three miscarriages before the couple adopted Roan in 2000.
After her life-changing stroke in 2001 and the end of their marriage three years later, the couple entered a bitter custody battle, which Stone lost.
Phil was awarded primary custody and Sharon received visits from her son every month.
In Basic Instinct, Sharon plays a calculating killer and Michael Douglas is the homicide detective who becomes obsessed with her.
Her family: After divorcing Phil Bronstein in 2004, Sharon adopted son Laird in 2005 and son Quinn in 2006 (pictured in 2017)
Roan is now an actor and stars in What About Love, with Andy Garcia playing his on-screen father.
After the divorce, Sharon adopted son Laird in 2005 and son Quinn in 2006.
In her 2021 memoir The Beauty of Living Twice, she wrote: “I was punished for changing the rules of how we view women, and I understand that by writing this book I could be punished again. But this time I’m not afraid.
She opened up about her feelings about the ordeal, admitting that she “couldn’t function” and ended up sleeping “every afternoon”, unable to “get up”.
Hollywood actress Sharon pictured with her son Roan in April 2004
She discovered that she had a prolapsed valve and that she was anorexic.
Sharon wrote: ‘I stopped eating and broke down and didn’t even realize it. I had just gone to bed and given up. My heart, it seemed, was really broken.
The star continued to fight for her son for more than a decade in a “custody chess game.”
Sharon added: ‘I did that for 13 years; I played a very long and very difficult game of custody chess in an effort to get him everything I could for his health and well-being.
‘Now my home and family are complete and I can find success again in the rest of my life, as my heart is also complete.’
Not friendly: Phil, pictured in 1999, was married to Sharon from 1998 to 2004, when the couple broke up and entered into a custody battle over Roan.