Basic Instinct star Sharon Stone has told of how she hasn't had jobs and lost everything after being ignored by Hollywood following her stroke.
Speaking candidly at a recent event, the 65-year-old actress spoke about the stroke she suffered in 2001, which saw her admitted to hospital following a brain haemorrhage.
When she was 43, Sharon's vertebral artery had "completely ruptured" amid her health scare, which caused her brain to bleed for a total of nine days.
The actress, who had a "one percent" chance of survival then underwent emergency surgery, which lasted for seven hours and was followed by a very long recovery process.
And now Sharon has spoken about how Hollywood snubbed her during her recovery.
Speaking at The Hollywood Reporter’s Raising Our Voices event in the week and reflecting on her career, Sharon looked back on recovering from her stroke when she said: "I recovered for seven years, and I haven’t had jobs since.
"When it first happened, I didn’t want to tell anybody because you know if something goes wrong with you, you’re out. Something went wrong with me — I’ve been out for 20 years."
The star, who was the face of the film industry in the 90s, then added: "I haven’t had jobs. I was a very big movie star at one point in my life."
Prior to Sharon's stroke, she starred in the aforementioned Basic Instinct, Total Recall, Sliver, The Specialist and The Quick and the Dead.
Since her health scare, Sharon has starred in All I Wish, Broken Flowers, Lovelace, What About Love and The Laundromat.
Elsewhere in her chat with the publication, Sharon also spoke of how she "broke a lot of glass ceilings" throughout her career.
The new interview isn't the first time that Sharon has spoken about her stroke and how it took a toll on her successful career.
Four years ago back in 2019, Sharon spoke of how she was the "hottest movie star" but felt as though she lost "everything she had" after her stroke.
In a chat with Variety, Sharon said: "I lost my place in the business. I was like the hottest movie star, you know? It was like Miss Princess Diana and I were so famous — and she died and I had a stroke. And we were forgotten."
She continued: "You find yourself at the back of the line in your business, as I did. You have to figure yourself out all over again."
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