‘I have known death very closely’

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Sharon Stone said she felt the presence of her deceased friend when she suffered a life-altering stroke in 2001.

The 65-year-old actress, who has long been outspoken about how her stroke affected her career, said: harper's bazaar spain About how a medical scare changed her life.

“My stroke brought me a strong sense of peace. Today I can say that I have known death very closely,” she said.

“In that moment, I felt my deceased friends coming to pick me up, and all traces of fear disappeared. There was no need to panic or try anything anymore,” Stone continued. “When you go through something like this, you realize that nothing really matters in life, and that failure is just the beginning of success.”

The 'Basic Instinct' star suffered a nine-day brain hemorrhage and was given a one per cent chance of survival.She claimed this last year Doctors thought she was “fake” We almost sent her home, but they reevaluated her and sent her to neurosurgery.

The ordeal forced Stone to take a two-year break from acting, but she quickly realized that returning to the silver screen would not be easy.

“It took me seven years to recover, but I haven't had a job since then.” she said The Hollywood Reporter speaks out June event.

“When it first happened, I didn't want to tell anyone because you know if something goes wrong, you're out. Something went wrong — I We've been apart for 20 years.”

“I didn't have a job. I was a very big movie star at one point in my life,” Stone emphasized.

In 2019 she told Variety Due to her health scare, she said, she “lost everything I had.”

“I lost my place in the business. I was like the hottest movie star, you know? It was like a mistake. Princess Diana and I were very famous, but she passed away and I had a stroke. And we were forgotten. ”

After her stroke, Stone continued to appear in films such as Catwoman, Loveless, and The Laundromat.