Sharon Stone she continues to choose to be happy 24 years after a near-fatal brain hemorrhage that changed the course of her life forever.
Before introducing the best foreign film award to 2025 Golden Globe Awards In Beverly Hills, California, on Sunday night, Stone told Fox News Digital that he believes people have a choice about how they view the world.
“I think you can choose the way you look at the world, and I choose to be happy, which I think is a discipline. And that's what I do,” Stone said.
Sharon Stone chooses to be “happy” 24 years after her “near-death experience.” (Getty Images)
The actress, who rose to fame in the 1990s with starring roles in “Basic Instinct” and “Casino,” spoke to her. BBC News in December about the advice he would give the young.
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“You'll make it,” Stone told the store through tears. “You don't know, but you will. I'd write it on my eyebrows. I'd like to know it more often.”
“I think you can choose the way you look at the world, and I choose to be happy, which I think is a discipline. And that's what I do.”
He continued, “When I was down and I couldn't get an ambulance. When I came home (from the hospital) and I read in People magazine that we wouldn't know for 30 days whether I shall live or die.”
After suffering a brain hemorrhage in 2001, Stone told the agency that he became “a very different person.” He explained that even his taste in food changed.
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Through it all, Stone chose to be patient.
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“We can choose to b—h and moan, or we can choose happiness. I think you have to always choose happiness,” Stone told BBC News. “Stay there. You fell. Get up. Someone pushed you down. Now they want to help you. Let them.”
In May, Stone appeared in the UK “Good Morning Britain“and talked about how much his career has progressed since becoming active after having a “near-death experience.”
Sharon Stone endured nine days of bleeding in 2001. (Stefano Guidi)
“I went to the first hospital and got an MRI and I had this a near death experience then he was taken to a special hospital. “I continued to bleed on the brain for nine days before my best friend convinced (the doctors) to take another look,” he said at the time. I was able to fix it at the last minute.
He added: “He was truly one of those beautiful miracles. “It's true that I'm different, I have an invisible disability. People can help you when they see you walking with crutches, but when you have some problem with brain function, people don't know that .you need help with that.”
The actress, who spent more than 20 years as an activist for the World Health Organization, said that her first step in recovery took “seven years.”
Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone starred in the 1992 film Basic Instinct. (TriStar/Getty Images)
“It's a long time to lose your strength,” he said.
“In seven years, you no longer have the taste of that time, you no longer have the heat of the box-office, the people you used to work with are no longer in power,” he added. “Everything changes and people don't care about that person anymore. It's like going back to your old job seven years later… you don't go back to your job and think there's no nothing has changed.”
He admitted: “I was sad when the world went on without me. “But now I'm over it.”
Sharon Stone once spoke about how the world “has moved on” without her after she suffered a stroke. (Mondadori Portfolio)
In 2023, Stone spoke more about how his medical scare has greatly affected his career.
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“I had a 1% chance of survival. I had a brain bleed for nine days. I recovered for seven years and haven't had a job yet. from then,” he said during the “Raising Our Voices” luncheon in June 2023. “My contract has changed. I have 14 hours when it started, I didn't want to to tell anyone because, you you know, if there's something wrong with you, you're out. There's something wrong with me: I've been gone for 20 years,” he said.
“I haven't found any jobs yet. I was a big movie star at one point in my life. “I broke a lot of glass above my head,” he admitted.
Sharon Stone has worked at the World Health Organization for over 20 years. (Andreas Rentz/Getty Images for ZFF)
“I would like to be heard, but since I wasn't, I decided to work so that you can be heard,” he continued. “I have spent the last 20 years working with the World Health Organization, working for the United Nations, working for governments around the world so that you can be heard. It is important to me that your diversity don't end this anti-woke bulls—an idea in our country.”
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Speaking to Willie Geist on “Sunday TODAY with Willie Geist” in 2021, Stone, who is now a self-taught artist and painter, said he has found peace with his life now.
Sharon Stone also worked at the United Nations. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)
“I'm in a place full of gratitude,” he said. “When I was a kid, I always wanted a house full of running and screaming kids and dogs, and I got it. And I feel very blessed and happy with the life I have. We are happy together, and the best. more than that?”
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“There is nothing more freeing than standing alone,” Stone added. “I tell my friends that my new mantra is: 'It's never too late to be you.'
Christina Dugan Ramirez of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.