It's
one thing for an actress to grapple with lesser roles while she's
attempting to launch her career. It's another thing to do it as a
52-year-old former superstar. Just ask Sharon Stone, now 57, who found
herself struggling through a limited guest run on the 11th season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2010, 15 years after earning a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her work in Martin Scor sese's Casino. To add insult to injury, Stone kept forgetting her lines.
The
situation had to do in part with an aneurysm that Stone suffered in 2001
and a subsequent cerebral hemorrhage that lasted nine days. She emerged
from the hospital stuttering, limping, and unable to read. Over the
next few years, her marriage to journalist Phil Bronstein fell apart,
and she lost custody of their adopted son, Roan, then eight. But as
bleak as things looked as she suited up to play an assistant district
attorney on
Law & Order, Stone says, she realized what she had to do.
Only recently has Stone begun to
talk openly about the brain hemorrhage and its crushing impact on her
life. As she recalls it, she felt unwell for three days before she went
to the emergency room. It turned out she'd had a stroke, and she lost
consciousness soon after being admitted. "When I came to, the doctor was
leaning over me. I said, 'Am I dying?' And he said, 'You're bleeding
into your brain,' " she remembers. "I said, 'I should call my mom,' and
he said, 'You're right. You could lose the ability to speak soon.' "
Stone's mother flew in from Pennsylvania so quickly that she arrived at
her daughter's bedside still in her gardening shorts.
Source: Harper Bazaar
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