Sharon Stone opens up about her brush with stroke and how it almost killed her. ‘I had a 5% chance of living,’ the actress says. She was 43 years old by that time and had to learn to walk, speak, read and write again. The actress says the health scare, which she experienced in 2001, changed her life forever.
The now 59-year-old lost almost all function in her left side, and it took years to learn basic skills again. “When I came home after the stroke, I could barely walk. My hip was unstable. I couldn’t see out of my left eye and I couldn’t hear out of my left ear,” Sharon explained. “I couldn’t write my name for almost three years. I couldn’t get my arm to listen to my mind, so I had to learn to read and write again. I had to learn to speak again. It took years for the feeling to come back to my left leg, but it finally came back.”
Following her “massive brain hemorrhage and stroke,” Stone, who has been left with a “brain seizure condition which I take medication for,” said that during her years of recovery, she lost her marriage, lost custody of her child, lost her place in line in the business and lost all of her money.
