Sharon Stone recently revealed that she had “zero money” after her 2001 stroke.
When speaking with the Hollywood Reporter, Stone spoke up about the aftermath of her stroke. During her interview, she stated that she lost $18 million in savings. While recovering from the stroke and a nine-day brain bleed, many people around her “took advantage of me over that time,” she said.
“I had $18 million saved because of all my success, but when I got back into my bank account, it was all gone. My refrigerator, my phone — everything was in other people’s names,” Stone said.
Sharon Stone Left With ‘Zero Money’ After 2001 Stroke
Stone also said the stroke “totally, one hundred percent” changed the way her brain worked.
“A Buddhist monk told me that I had been reincarnated into my same body,” she said. “I had a death experience and then they brought me back. I bled into my brain for nine days, so my brain was shoved to the front of my face. It wasn’t positioned in my head where it was before.
“And while that was happening, everything changed,” she continued. “My sense of smell, my sight, my touch. I couldn’t read for a couple of years. Things were stretched and I was seeing color patterns. A lot of people thought I was going to die.”
All the while, the people around her took complete advantage of her and her money, draining her bank account until she was left with — quite literally — nothing.
“I had zero money,” she said.
When asked how she could recover from that — both financially and physically — she stressed the importance of letting go.
“I decided not to hang onto being sick or to any bitterness or anger,” she explained. “If you bite into the seed of bitterness, it never leaves you. But if you hold faith, even if that faith is the size of a mustard seed, you will survive.
“So, I live for joy now,” she continued. “I live for purpose.”