Sharon Stone reveals in 'El Hormiguero' that she was about to die: "I saw the white light"
The actress connected live with 'El Hormiguero' to present her memories and narrated how the serious stroke she suffered has affected her and how she has recovered
“I opened my eyes and there he was, above me, a few inches from my face. A stranger who looked at me with such kindness that she was sure that he was going to kill me. He caressed my head, my hair; God, how handsome he was. I wished he was someone who loved me instead of someone whose next words would be: he's giving you a stroke." This is one of the paragraphs from the book 'The Beauty of Living Twice', a volume in which Sharon Stone recounts her efforts to rebuild her life and the slow and arduous path she traveled to regain fullness and health . And it is that the actress suffered a serious stroke that cost her not only her health, but also her career, her family, her fortune and her world fame. The star appeared in 'El Hormiguero' with this backpack, ready to tell Pablo Motos about his life, from his complex childhood to the relationships in Hollywood that were her biggest disappointments.
«Había tenido varios incidentes previos al ictus y muchos pensaban que estaba actuando cuando les decía que no me sentía bien», revelaba la artista que conectó en directo desde Los Ángeles. Motos se interesó entonces por ese momento en el que estuvo a punto de fallecer. «Tuve una experiencia en la que ves una luz blanca a lo lejos y sientes que te sales de tu cuerpo. Hay gente que piensa que es algo espiritual y otros, que es algo del cerebro. Posiblemente sea una mezcla de ambas cosas», reflexionaba.“He had had several incidents prior to the stroke and many thought that he was acting when he told them that I did not feel well,” revealed the artist that she connected live from Los Angeles. Motos was then interested in that moment in which he was about to die. "I had an experience where you see a white light in the distance and feel like you're leaving your body. There are people who think that it is something spiritual and others that it is something of the brain. Possibly it is a mixture of both things », she reflected.
Stone claimed that she suffered a lot after the spill. "I had memory loss, long and short term, I lost part of my left ear, I had stuttering problems and I had to learn to walk, speak, read and write again," she listed without losing her smile. Aesthetically, she also affected him: "One side of my face was quite droopy and I injected myself with a lot of botox and similar processes to recover." Progress was slow, but she never lost her way. «I am very disciplined and that is why I managed to recover. Today, I'm still working on it », she admitted.
Her humor also marked a talk in which they highlighted anecdotes such as the one that she discovered that her grandmother taught her to be a pickpocket. «She was Irish and quite a character. She was great at it and she taught me the technique. My grandmother had crockery from all the hotels she had stayed in », she confessed amused. And when asked if she had ever used that knowledge, the interviewee did not stop: «Once I was with a friend in a hotel restaurant in Prague and she challenged me to do it. She told me that she was not going to dare me. And when we went to her room, she had put the entire set of dishes in her bag ». For something the interpreter assures that the sense of humor, "is the best weapon against fear."
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Recalling how Woody Allen gave her her first break and how she discovered Leonardo DiCaprio, Stone discussed her rise to fame with 'Basic Instinct'. “On Friday I was a normal person and the following Tuesday I was going down Sunset Boulevard, I stopped the car at a traffic light and everyone jumped on top of it. I couldn't see anything and I didn't know what to do, there were many people on top of my car. I was very overwhelmed by that, "she said. And it is that, as she said that one: «Fame costs».
