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Sharon Stone has recalled a time when doctors thought she was “faking” a brain haemorrhage.
The 65-year-old Hollywood star suffered a stroke two decades ago in 2001 which led to a nine-day brain bleed.
While speaking to Vogue, the Basic Instinct star opened up about the moment she woke up in a Los Angeles emergency room with crippling head pain.
She told the publication: “I remember waking up on a gurney and asking the kid wheeling it where I was going, and him saying, ‘brain surgery’.
“A doctor had decided, without my knowledge or consent, that he should give me exploratory brain surgery and sent me off to the operating room.”
Speaking about when the doctors realised it was a brain haemorrhage, she said: “They missed it with the first angiogram and decided that I was faking it.
“My best friend talked them into giving me a second one and they discovered that I had been haemorrhaging into my brain, my whole subarachnoid pool, and that my vertebral artery was ruptured.
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“I would have died if they sent me home,” the Hollywood star divulged.
Sharon went on to explain that she bled so much that the right side of her face fell, her left foot was dragging severely and she was stuttering very badly.
The actress is still taking medication to this day to control the stuttering and severe brain seizures.
“For the first couple of years I would also get these weird knuckle-like knots that would come up all over the top of my head that felt like I was getting punched,” she explained.
The movie star said she didn’t reveal any details about her brain bleed for several years as she was worried about the public reaction towards it.
“I hid my disability and was afraid to go out and didn’t want people to know,” Sharon admitted.
She thought people wouldn’t be accepting of her after this huge life-changing incident in her life.
