Sharon Stone has just published The Beauty of Living Twice, a book in which she collects her memories as an actress. The protagonist of Basic Instinct or Casino is promoting her publication through various media and television sets, where she has stopped to talk about some of the content that she recounts in this text that went on sale on the 30th of March. And she is not leaving anyone indifferent.
On her visit to The Late Late Show with James Corden, the 63-year-old actress opened up about the near-death experience she had in 2001, when she suffered a stroke. His account surprised by the visions that Stone claims to have had while he was between life and death, admitting that he saw "a tunnel of light" in which he glimpsed "several people with whom he had been very close or had been his caregivers until they died."
According to Stone, she was admitted to the hospital after falling from the van and becoming unconscious. When she came to, she found herself next to a doctor who informed her that she was having a stroke and that they were going to transfer her to another specialized neurology center for treatment. However, the actress narrates that as soon as she was put on the stretcher to be transferred, she felt as if her life was going out.
“Once I got on that stretcher, all of a sudden, that was it and I was gone. I felt like I was sweeping up and I saw a tunnel of light," the interpreter admits. That's when she claims to have seen people close to her who died long ago. "I felt like they were saying to me, 'This is all great. This is all good. This is going to be wonderful."
Stone also recalls that “something happened” that made her feel like she had been “kicked in the chest really, really hard,” causing her to wake up. She already conscious, she found herself back in the hospital with the doctor and prepared to be transferred to the other center. "I went to the other hospital. A lot of different things happened, bad and good, but in the end they did an angiogram. My brain wasn't bleeding, but then I kept bleeding for like five or six days."
However, the actress says that the doctors thought that she was "faking it", that she was using her talents as an actress. "I guess because they must think I'm a really fabulous actress," she joked. “But they were going to send me home, and I told my best friend 'I'm dying'. And she just came out and got mad and said they couldn't send me home, nobody sleeps 20 hours a day," Stone continues.
That's when she had another angiogram done and they realized that her vertebral artery was completely ruptured and she had been bleeding non-stop in her head, undergoing a complex operation that lasted about seven hours. "I survived a very, very difficult surgery. It was quite a journey." However, despite having been about to die, Stone fondly remembers this anecdote, since she did not hesitate to describe it as "very strange" and "very beautiful".
