Sharon Stone has opened up about the dangers of being a multi-millionaire Hollywood A-lister in a candid new interview.
The Basic Interest actress, 65, who is worth an estimated $60 million, revealed that it is ‘very expensive to be famous’ and that she is expected to pick up the check ‘every time’ at dinner in a candid new conversation with In style.
The Golden Globe winner said her star is so big she can no longer “hop on a Delta flight” and has to hire a whole group of staff to keep her looking stylish and ensure her safety.
She said: ‘It’s very expensive to be famous. You go out to eat and there are fifteen people at the table, and who gets the bill? You get the $3,000 dinner check every time.”
The star tallied up all her expenses, including her home – her team of staff, from publicists to security to make-up artists.
Sharon Stone has opened up about the dangers of being a multi-millionaire Hollywood A-lister in a candid new interview
The Basic Interest actress, 65, who is worth an estimated $60 million, revealed that it is ‘very expensive to be famous’ and that she is expected to pick up the check ‘every time’ at dinner in a candid new conversation with InStyle
Sharon said she is too famous to take flights on commercial airlines, saying, “At least now (people) understand that Jennifer Lawrence can’t just skip a plane. Nicole Kidman can’t jump on Delta. Sharon Stone can’t do it either, whether she makes many films or not.
“(People) think, ‘What have you been in?’ And it’s like, dude, they know me in the Amazon rainforest. It’s tampons, cotton swabs and Sharon Stone.’
The star looked sensational during the shoot – mimicking her iconic film Basic Instinct as she showed off her legs in a white coat worn over underwear and paired with shiny heels.
Back in October an interview with British Vogue, the Oscar-nominated actress recalled the near-fatal stroke she suffered in 2001, and the doctors who she says initially misdiagnosed her medical emergency and sent her home almost untreated.
The star explained the pain in her head as a “bolt of lightning,” moments before she was rushed to the hospital all those years ago.
“I remember waking up on a stretcher and asking the guy driving it where I was going, and he said, ‘brain surgery,'” the actress recalled. “A doctor, without my knowledge or consent, decided he needed to give me exploratory brain surgery and sent me to the operating room.”
She claims the medical staff didn’t take her description of her pain level seriously, and as a result they didn’t detect the brain bleed: “They missed it on the first angiogram and decided I was faking it,” Stone told the publication. .
The bleeding left her with a nine-day cerebral hemorrhage and a 1% survival rate after surgery.
The star looked sensational during the shoot – mimicking her iconic 1992 film Basic Instinct (pictured) as she showed off her legs in a white coat worn over underwear and paired with shiny heels
Sharon wore smoky eye makeup and pink lipstick for the shoot
By the time Stone became fully aware of the doctors’ plan to perform exploratory brain surgery, she went out of her way to make it clear that she had not yet signed up for the surgery.
Looking back now, some twenty years later, Stone has a new perspective on the way patients are treated.
“What I learned through that experience is that women are often just not heard in a medical setting, especially if you don’t have a female doctor,” says the Meadville, Pennsylvania, native.
Coincidentally, Stone’s best friend was by her side at the hospital and was able to be her advocate, which ultimately led to her getting a second angiogram.
“My best friend talked them into giving me a second one and they discovered I had a bleed in my brain, my entire subarachnoid pool, and my vertebral artery was torn,” Stone explained, before adding, “I would would have died if they had sent me home.’
After losing significant weight during her hospital stay, Stone had difficulty walking and stuttered in her speech.
In October, Sharon revealed in an interview with British Vogue that she had suffered a brain haemorrhage in 2001 and that doctors thought she was ‘faking it’.
“I remember waking up on a stretcher and asking the guy driving it where I was going, and he said, ‘brain surgery,'” the actress recalled. ‘A doctor, without my knowledge or consent, decided he needed to give me exploratory brain surgery and sent me to the operating room’; Stone is pictured in 2001, just before she suffered a brain hemorrhage
“I bled so badly in my subarachnoid pool (head, neck and spine) that the right side of my face fell, my left foot dragged heavily and I stuttered really badly,” she revealed.
As a result, Stone now takes daily medication for stuttering and severe brain seizures.
“The first few years I also got these weird knuckle-like knots that would pop up all over my head and it felt like I was being punched,” she admitted. ‘I can’t express how painful it all was.’
Earlier this month, Stone said People that her eyesight had also been affected and that she had suffered memory loss during the early stages of her recovery.