Sharon Stone has opened up about her near-death experience following a severe brain haemorrhage. The actress reveals how she was given a ‘five per cent chance’ of living and had to re-learn ‘everything’ when her life was ‘wiped out’ as a result of the ruptured blood vessel in 2001, The 59-year-old actress told CBS News that she also believes work dried up following her recovery because she was considered to be a ‘broken person.’
Sharon, who is set to make her TV return in Steven Soderbergh’s Mosaic this month – said: ‘There was about a five per cent chance of me living. My whole life was wiped out. Others aren’t that interested in a broken person. I was alone.’ She added: ‘I’m sure I seemed peculiar coming through this all these years, and I didn’t want to tell everybody what was happening because, you know, this is not a forgiving environment.
‘I’m so grateful to have this. The chance of me having it was so slim.’ Describing the moment she saw a ‘giant vortex of light’ when her brain haemorrhage struck she said: ‘I feel that I did die. This kind of giant vortex of light was upon me and – poof! I sort of took off into this glorious, white light. I started to see and be met by some of my friends … people who were very, very dear to me [who had died].’ ‘I had a real journey with this that took me to places both here and beyond. But it was very fast – whoosh! Suddenly, I was back. I was back in my body.’
