No one in Hollywood has a career quite like Sharon Stone’s, and that same distinction can be made about her personal life. The actress added turning 68 years young (in a bikini) to a slew of other accolades and accomplishments she's earned over the years, but one of her most noteworthy experiences skews far more harrowing than celebratory, and has nothing to do with any of her on-screen projects. It does involve a scary-as-all-balls Komodo dragon, though.
The actress went back in action for 2025’s Nobody 2 ahead of hitting the 2026 TV lineup as part of Euphoria Season 3, but it’s her tumultuous 2001 trip to the Los Angeles Zoo that has racked up votes and comments on a TIL Reddit post just under 25 years since it went down. The post links back to a Smithsonian article titled “The Most Infamous Komodo Dragon Encounters of the Century,” which is hilarious, but could absolutely be the title of the scariest horror movie of any given year. And that cites a very detailed 2001 Time interview that Stone gave two weeks after.
